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Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event
Fotograf writes "Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool. The latest debacle is earning the company some additional publicity. After Yahoo hosted Taiwan Open Hack Day, a special event for engineers and developers that was held last weekend, a series of photos found their way onto the internet — as ill-thought out decisions often do. Yahoo offered lap dances to the attendees of the hack event. Since the pictures have come out the company has decided to apologize."
No. But you do torture people in Guatanamo.
Did I say we were saints today compared to in the past? No. My point was that we're not becoming more IMMORAL, in fact I think we're becoming more MORAL as a society for the aforementioned reasons and more.
Torture still does go on, but there's far more opposition to it than in the past. During the spanish inquisition, there were no protests. Today, we do tell our government we want them to stop the torture.
While all torture is inhumane, the state-sponsored torture that goes on at Guantanamo is, er, not quite as primitive at least as the state-sponsored torture that went on through history. We're not using iron maidens or hot pokers, we're using water. Not to trivialize it, torture in any form is immoral, but if I had to choose, I'd prefer the torture that is going on currently over more traditional methods.
But you do kill people in Iraq.
Our government kills people in Iraq. A lot of us were opposed to the Iraq war. There is a much higher percentage of the populace that openly opposed the Iraq war than most other pointless wars. Again going back to the crusades, polling data wasn't available, but its safe to assume there was a lot less controversey about it on the part of the public. To me, that indicates we've become more moral and more opposed to violence, not less.
Wars in the past was fairly small scale compared to industrialized death and destruction.
No. 620,000 people died in the american civil war, over 60 million people died in world war 2.
Iraq war casualties estimates vary widely, most sources seem to be saying below 200,000, one says 600,000, and one is up to a million. I haven't done more than glance at that page, but you can't tell me that WWII is small compared to this.
I suppose you might count WWII as a modern war, which would be fair. But the people who believe the world is in moral decline say it started around the '60s, not before WWII. Again, if we are becoming more immoral as they say, at least we're less violent.
Wow this thread made me a couple new enemies.. One is even a professional technology journalist who contributes regularly to PC World, InfoWorld, and other publications. I truely feel honored!
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