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What Should I Do With My Tech Junk?
Thomas Matysik writes "I'm attempting to de-clutter my house and I've hit a rough patch: the computer room. I've got a bunch of wires, hardware and software that (I think) were useful at one point in time, but these days it doesn't do much more than take up space. Selling it seems like it'd be a huge hassle and it seems really wasteful for me to just pitch all of this stuff in the dumpster. I've considered giving it away to Goodwill, but I'm afraid that's not the right sort of outlet for this stuff. My question: what should I do with all of my tech junk?"
Umm... How? Dead is dead is dead, or so it's been said. I'm not taking the position of condoning the behavior, but your argument doesn't follow.
If your argument is that it's better for them to be chronically malnourished than poisoned with metals, then you assume (a) that they can't be detoxified later, and (b) that they would prefer to starve now, instead of succumb to disease at some undetermined future time.
My counterargument would be that you're supporting a corrupt hierarchy of slave-masters — because the people "employing" these children keep the lion's share of the profits and use it to fund further "talent-seeking" operations, etc.
True science means that when you re-evaluate the evidence, you re-evaluate your faith.
Okay, I'm curious. Is is really better? Given the choice between a calorie intake low enough to guarantee eventual death and a higher calorie diet but expected death from exposure to toxic substances, which is the better existence?
I have to think that anything that lets me live longer is the preferable way to go.