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That's a knee-jerk reaction and you know it. The answer is what it has always been: We, as a society, will figure it out as we go along. Right now, the collec
by techsupporter 12y ago
That's a knee-jerk reaction and you know it. The answer is what it has always been: We, as a society, will figure it out as we go along. Right now, the collective says you can't drive over a certain speed, you can't build particular buildings in particular locations, you can't operate on people without training, you can't smoke indoors in several small pockets of society, you can't just broadcast RF at certain frequencies, and so on. No, we don't have central economic planning to the level of detail you sarcastically ask, nor do we have sociological planning like that (though, I do note, that arranged/forced marriages and the accompanying acts of procreation _were_ considered reasonable for hundreds of years).
Being told "no" by society doesn't imply any status of rightness or wrongness, nor is it a reason to get all petulant and start asking "illogically-extending-the-argument" questions.
- orangecat 12y agoIf I'm parsing that correctly without the gratuitous insults, it would be "yes, society has the moral authority to dictate every aspect of your life, but it will probably leave you some degree of freedom, so quit complaining". I profoundly disagree, but I'll leave it at that.