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Chinese authorities turned people’s Covid app red to stop them from leaving
- eternalban 4y agoI'm divided on all this. Rationally, a sort of 'scientific' management approach appears to be optimal. We can not pretend global affairs and planning can ever be 'democratic'. At best, we can arrive at a consensus of mores and ethics, and leave high level planning to experts within the norms defined. Intuitively, there is the awareness of the full spectrum of the tendencies of mankind, which raises alarming concerns regarding the former thought: who can be trusted with this much power? who is actually qualified? Possibly the fact that these doubts arise are in themselves decisive judgment. 2020 does give us insights regarding this important question that really needs to be discussed more openly.
- salawat 4y agoYou were so busy working out how you could do something, you never stopped to think whether you should. Always answer should before could, because not doing so means, at best, your life is now going to be intrinsically tied to cleaning up after it. Now you know why there are Things I Won't Work On.
- eternalban 4y agoThe issue here is that the should question itself is mired with -undecidable- propositions. Fundamentally, the age seems to be tending towards viewing the human as a biological machine, yet unquestionably a majority of mankind believes in some variety of 'creature with a soul'. The 'should' question is trivially answered if you are in the mechanical camp. All sorts of 'difficult moral questions' go out the window. It is the preeminent slippery slope. And this is the root cause of the moral dilemma faced by the thinking set who are not in the mechanical camp.