But beyond that, we should not have such easy to access cutting technology. It’s just too much power for our current greedy, short-term thinking.
Moreover, I actually agree with you in some ways, even though you meant to be sarcastic. Modern cutting technology, which certainly should include deep-well oil drilling, IS too much.
In fact, all technology has a limit beyond which we should not go. We just have to apply deep thinking to figure out what it is, or at least do our best to try.
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Technology is fine. It’s this artificial cookie-cutter society we’re forcing on everyone. We have a mental health and education problem.
The tech isn’t the issue, it’s the people who feel the need to use it for negative purposes.
Limiting tech is just a bandaid.
Technology is not fine. Not all of it is bad, but to say all of it is fine makes no sense. Yes, we have a mental and health education problem, but it's reasonable to have rules for all societies. Limiting technology that makes getting ahead too easy makes sense because even in the most utopian and good societies, if gaining something is TOO EASY, then it WILL be taken.
It's much too simplistic to frame technology as fine. If all technology is fine, perhaps every corner store should sell automatic weapons? Can you imagine a society, ANY society, in which this makes sense?
You are talking about mental problem. Do you know what have contributed to mental problem ever since the existence of human being? Isolation and loneliness, which technologies such as telephone, email and yes, social network can help with.
Name any technology that should be banned, and I can give you a reason why it should be not.
Your point seems in agreement with this to a degree.
More importantly, you claim it to be a mental health/education issue; yet you can't show me a period of human history without wars and power struggles.
What is different about cars and new tech is that new tech comes with the ability to track and monitor all users. So historically we didnt mind if one in ten million people wanted to ram people with their truck on purpose. But now the power to monitor everyone all the time to prevent these "one in ten million" crimes exists.
Its up to you to decide if the trade off is worth it.
Until tech can do that it hasnt gone far enough.
I suppose the deeper point I was trying to make was that “this time is different/special” is shallow thinking, as is believing that the real issue is with our “current greedy short term thinking”.
The real issue is the human condition, which remains largely as it has throughout our history. We need to choose a way to live knowing we will die, and then live that way.