Re:A new kind of labor movement in Silicon Valley?
by quotemstr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:38PM
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Right. The world is more complicated than "weapons bad love good". Do people really think that fewer people would die if we could somehow roll weapons technology back to 1914? God help us if we did that unilaterally.
We live in an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and it's not artificial limitations on technological development that got us here.
I see the adoption of simplistic and absolute moral stances by people smart enough to know better as a form of entitled selfishness. It's as if people feel entitled to performative first-order moral posturing while foisting on other people the job of avoiding the foreseeable negative consequences of adopting simplistic feel-good policies in a complex world.
We live in an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and it's not artificial limitations on technological development that got us here.
I see the adoption of simplistic and absolute moral stances by people smart enough to know better as a form of entitled selfishness. It's as if people feel entitled to performative first-order moral posturing while foisting on other people the job of avoiding the foreseeable negative consequences of adopting simplistic feel-good policies in a complex world.