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I agree with you, there's great potential good for this tech. The evil that is coming from it and will continue to come from it is perpetrated by those that, a
by ferdo 13y ago
I agree with you, there's great potential good for this tech.
The evil that is coming from it and will continue to come from it is perpetrated by those that, as said earlier, accept the premise of the State/government that they work for.
If it's a person's job to use technology such that it results in innocents being killed, injured or sucked up into a byzantine legal system and that person keeps doing that job, that's an example of the banality of evil.
Making quads to replace manual labor isn't banal or evil.
- scott_s 13y agoWhich is why the discussion should be about the policies and rules we need to allow good uses, but prevent bad ones.
- ferdo 13y agoWe already have policies and rules that are considered "good" by the people that implement and execute policy. That's the problem.
- vowelless 13y ago> If it's a person's job to use technology such that it results in innocents being killed, injured or sucked up into a byzantine legal system and that person keeps doing that job, that's an example of the banality of evil. I guess McDonald's fits that bill as well, as diabetes and obesity are among the biggest killers in the US.
- ferdo 13y agoGluttony has always been a human failing. The National Security State is a relatively new one.
- adestefan 13y agoCan you please pinpoint the year that you think the "National Security State" is new? Because it's been going on since time immemorial.
- ferdo 13y agoThe National Security Act of 1947 is the beginning of the modern American national security state. Compare to human gluttony, it's a relative newcomer.
- mpyne 13y agoYou would be thrilled about what the ancient Romans did then. But if you want to stick with the U.S., you might find that stuff that President Lincoln did quite atrocious from a civil liberties point of view as well.
- ferdo 13y agoI'm well aware of the history of espionage, thanks. Lincoln and the Romans had no wires to tap, hence the "modern" national security state.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoSome marketing fits the bill; without that, McDonalds is just an option to hurt yourself, while being spied on or killed by drones it NOT a choice, which does make a difference.