The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There is a steep price to be paid. Almost none of you give it the slightest creedance.
History has taken us here before. Dr. Gatling invented the machine gun intent on ridding the world of warfare. Dr. Guillotin invented his blade intent on merciful execution. Heroin was invented to eliminate suffering. There is nothing new under the sun.
Human nature is the problem rather than technology. This is typical irresponsible use of intellectual accomplishment: no recognition that history consistently demonstrates a tendency toward self-annihilation. New technologies only amplify our depraved abilities. Somewhere soon, someone will do so with this. They will do it in a novel, nightmarish way. They will do it sooner than you think.
Blithely ignorant remarks in favor of this new Orwellian power are reminiscent of fools in every age who went down on the Titanics or exploded aboard the Challengers of their own times. They are inevitably hailed as heroes of progress, whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of technology to advance us to the next stage.
You are those idiots in "Independance Day" standing on top of the Interstate Bank Building in Los Angeles waving greeting placards in the face of your own destruction. You are the jackasses of every age who think just because it's never been done before is the perfect unassailable reason to go ahead and do it, consequences be damned.
Your moral sensibilities preclude any possibility of evil. For yours is the generation that thinks intellect equals virtue. As in "Jurassic Park" when the mathemetician warns, "You were so busy on whether you could, no one asked whether you should." You are a morally stunted generation comprehending nothing outside your science fiction-intoxicated imaginations. Bad just isn't possible, someone will make sure of that; just go for it.
You are those who will forge the Brave New World to come. You will be consumed by a monstrosity of your own making. And as it overtakes you, you will be those shaking their fists and cursing God for not stepping in to save you from yourselves. Your damnation is just.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There is a steep price to be paid. Almost none of you give it the slightest creedance.
History has taken us here before. Dr. Gatling invented the machine gun intent on ridding the world of warfare. Dr. Guillotin invented his blade intent on merciful execution. Heroin was invented to eliminate suffering. There is nothing new under the sun.
Human nature is the problem rather than technology. This is typical irresponsible use of intellectual accomplishment: no recognition that history consistently demonstrates a tendency toward self-annihilation. New technologies only amplify our depraved abilities. Somewhere soon, someone will do so with this. They will do it in a novel, nightmarish way. They will do it sooner than you think.
Blithely ignorant remarks in favor of this new Orwellian power are reminiscent of fools in every age who went down on the Titanics or exploded aboard the Challengers of their own times. They are inevitably hailed as heroes of progress, whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of technology to advance us to the next stage.
You are those idiots in "Independance Day" standing on top of the Interstate Bank Building in Los Angeles waving greeting placards in the face of your own destruction. You are the jackasses of every age who think just because it's never been done before is the perfect unassailable reason to go ahead and do it, consequences be damned.
Your moral sensibilities preclude any possibility of evil. For yours is the generation that thinks intellect equals virtue. As in "Jurassic Park" when the mathemetician warns, "You were so busy on whether you could, no one asked whether you should." You are a morally stunted generation comprehending nothing outside your science fiction-intoxicated imaginations. Bad just isn't possible, someone will make sure of that; just go for it.
You are those who will forge the Brave New World to come. You will be consumed by a monstrosity of your own making. And as it overtakes you, you will be those shaking their fists and cursing God for not stepping in to save you from yourselves. Your damnation is just.