Generally speaking, your political affiliation leans closest to:
- Conservative16.6%
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- Libertarian38.5%
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I wonder how libertarianism will survive in the future when the average citizen will have access to the technology to cook up a pandemic in their bathtub or create a paperclip maximiser on their PC.
There are bad actors who will do so - see bushfire arsonists here in Australia
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Definitely - but it’s abuse doesn’t constitute an existential threat every time a broken individual lights up a national forest and destroys nearby towns.
Absent a global totalitarian surveillance state one these individuals only has to succeed *once* to end it all for everyone
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there's something about this argument that 'feels' like it has a fallacy in it, like there's some intuitive tag around it, like... something like we've advanced HUGELY in tech over the last 200 years but haven't seen a proportional amount of individuals fucking over others
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What there has been is an increase not in the proportional *number* but in the *capability* of individuals to enact mass harm. A century ago a man could stab 3 or 4. Today he can mass shoot 30 or 40. Tomorrow he can kill 30,000 or 40,000. A century from now...?
The Australian government is at fault for not clearing our under brush. Plain and simple
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I don’t disagree. I’m not blaming the catastrophic 2019/2020 fire season on arsonists - I’m just acknowledging that they exist and would probably do worse if they had the means
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The needed push for mental well-being of citizens to become a priority of governments?
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I'm thinking that destructive and protective technology have always been created parallel to each other. Much like the emergence of new computer viruses and new anti-virus software soon after. Everyone will have more tech, including the potential victims. Cloaks, shields, etc.
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