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> 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 ke
by 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.