1 - fair enough, but I dont think the author is arguing what you claim he is, and doesnt seem to be a central point 2 - disease aside, the intent is important,

1 - fair enough, but I dont think the author is arguing what you claim he is, and doesnt seem to be a central point 2 - disease aside, the intent is important, the argument is that when technologically advanced meets less technological society the outcome is as much exploitation as possible 3 - artifical gravity is pretty tangential 4 - poodles being 0 or 1 is not your call to make, you as a 2 have no idea how a society at 100 would slice and dice it, its totally tangential but honestly maybe single cell lifeforms are 0, some kinda social structure ability to learn is 1, and 2 is less than a world wide society