Comment on People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.
jet@hackertalks.com 11 months ago
It’s going to be a difficult life if you avoid every tool that a bad person has ever used. Purified drinking water has been used to hydrate villains who then do terrible things. So you shouldn’t drink purified drinking water. The printing press has been used by evil people to spread evil ideas so you shouldn’t read or write. Ascribing intent to a technology is a very slippery slope. I don’t think it’s a tenable way to live a life.
Pandantic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What you are talking about is not the same as what OP is talking about. Following the analogy, it’s not like you should stop using shovels (or knives, or water) because someone bad used them (hell, Hitler was a dog lover, and I’ll be damned if I stop loving dogs because of that asshole). Rather, it’s that you shouldn’t just use the shovel you know murdered someone because the person murdered didn’t matter to you. Stepping out of the analogy, it’s not about the tool used (though the case could be made for some things) but about the companies who made them and how they used them or knowingly allowed them to be used.