[extropy-chat] My Dilemma

[The Avantguardian]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> I find vindicating technical progress by killing
> people and destroying
> infrastructure morally abhorrent.

Even leaving aside morality as being fuzzy and
relative, it is still highly irrational. By common
sense cause and effect, one reaps what one sows. So if
you only justify investing in technological progress
in the name of war, you get the ironic imbalance of
capability that we have today:

One man can invoke splinters of the sun to vaporize
millions of people at the touch of a button. Yet we
can't cure the common cold let alone poverty, old age,
and death.

Investing in fear pays dividends in terror. Investing
in love pays dividends of abundance. It isn't rocket
science nor does it have to be.

 


Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"God doesn't play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein

"Einstein, don't tell God what to do." - Neils Bohr

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