Re:Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
by sifar on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:37AM
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The original argument was all open source projects were ethically immoral. I didn't say all weapons were evil.
It is a matter of degree which becomes a matter of kind. There is a difference between a bow and an arrow, a semi automatic and the atom bomb.
This is something I keep pondering over, for all the brilliant minds involved in the Manhattan project, did they ever think about the effects of what they created.
This sounds like an equally slippery argument: one whose premise is that weapons should never be built, and that there is no justified use for them. The unfortunate reality of the world is that we do have and require militaries with intelligence agencies.
Based on the premise of your argument, the only non-slippery, internally consistent framework is that building weapons is universally and unambiguously bad.