Message-ID: <199610050002.AA10111@mail.crl.com> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:00:55 -0800 From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM> To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
This reminds me of the famous discussion between Aristotle and Howdy Doody, in which the conclusion was reached that "People don't kill people, people kill people."Gary Berlind :-)
>On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, J.C. Wandemberg wrote:
>> It is beyond me how can anybody, at the dawn of the 21st century give
>> technology a 'mind' of its own so as to categorized it as "bad" or "good".
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>> Technology, just like any THING is NEITHER good NOR bad in and of itself.
>> It is the use we HUMANS make of it (or HOW we create it) which can be
>> catergorized as either.
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>--So then the black plauge was good? It has no mind but i wouldn't say
>that in was 'NIETHER good NOR bad'.
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>> Cheers!
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