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> Technology could help, but right now it seems to be working the other way. If history does teach us anything, the moral ambiguity of technological progress i
by retrac 2y ago
> Technology could help, but right now it seems to be working the other way.
If history does teach us anything, the moral ambiguity of technological progress is surely one of the lessons of the 20th century. I think it might be one of those lessons we're forgetting again after a couple generations!
- Nasrudith 2y agoTechnology isn't morally ambiguous, it is a moral non-player. It would be obviously absurd to call rocks "immoral" because people can be bashed over the head with them. Ultimately there is no 'gun that only shoots bad people' type judgement possible from technology.
- cma 2y agoInstructions for building a box anyone could pit together for $20 in common materials with a button that would end the world would be a fairly unambiguously evil artifact. H-bombs as a much more expensive version that is arguable thanks to the somewhat lasting peace they can be argued to have brought through MAD, but if it had turned out world enders were something anyone could easily throw together it would be a very different world, or non-world.