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Technology is bad - Mímir - 08-02-2012
3D printing weapons. It had to happen one day.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012...of-gun-control/
Technology is bad - Crackpunch - 08-02-2012
Go back to living in a cave then.
Technology is bad - Mímir - 08-02-2012
Tsk, youth these days. You don't see the scope of where we are going?
Technology is bad - Crackpunch - 08-02-2012
' Wrote:Tsk, youth these days. You don't see the scope of where we are going?
Technology is not to blame. People are.
Technology is bad - Mímir - 08-02-2012
Yes, it can be erroneously reduced to that. "Guns don't kill, people do", yet there are more murders pr. capita in the US than in gun-restricted Scandinavia. Most of which are carried out with firearms. Go figure.
Technology enables people to do catastrophic things on a scale never seen before. Technology has made total devastation of the planet in a matter of hours possible, and introduced a lot of other risks to the society and the environment.
So it's good to be cautious and not just take a back-seat approach, no?
EDIT: Especially when people can print out working models of weapons, totally undermining years and years of legislation in the developed world.
Technology is bad - Crackpunch - 08-02-2012
' Wrote:Yes, it can be erroneously reduced to that. "Guns don't kill, people do", yet there are more murders pr. capita in the US than in gun-restricted Scandinavia. Most of which are carried out with firearms. Go figure.
Technology enables people to do catastrophic things on a scale never seen before. Technology has made total devastation of the planet in a matter of hours possible, and introduced a lot of other risks to the society and the environment.
So it's good to be cautious and not just take a back-seat approach, no?
Technology also enables people to do good. Without enhancements in farming and medicine, the extra 5 billion people we put on the planet in the last 200 years wouldn't be here.
It's not like there was no crime before the industrial revolution.
Technology is bad - Mímir - 08-02-2012
No what worries me is the scale. People have always been able to kill people, modern technology just made it a lot faster, easier and more efficient.
Also in regards to putting an extra 5 billion people on the planet, that is in itself a catastrophy. The 21st century is going to be signified by mass-migration, and historically mass-migration has always lead to conflict and wars (Ghengis Khan anyone?).
Technology is bad - Crackpunch - 08-02-2012
' Wrote:No what worries me is the scale. People have always been able to kill people, modern technology just made it a lot faster, easier and more efficient.
Any process that aids in the construction/assembly of goods/materials makes it easier to produce weapons. You can't just stop research into improving technological processes.
Technology is bad - Mímir - 08-02-2012
But if we haphazardly reduce everything it that manner, we relieve ourselves of any and all responsibility. It's a cop-out, isn't it?
Also this specific case is not just about making weapon production easier, it's about making it possible. There's a radical difference right there, wouldn't you say?
Technology is bad - Crackpunch - 08-02-2012
' Wrote:But if we haphazardly reduce everything it that manner, we relieve ourselves of any and all responsibility. It's a cop-out, isn't it?
Also this specific case is not just about making weapon production easier, it's about making it possible. There's a radical difference right there, wouldn't you say?
So if anything is possible, we should police and regulate ourselves.
Surely if anything is possible then we can find a way to do that.