What do we do about the villains?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Prevention is better than cure.

A proper health care system designed to ensure that people like this get the help they need when they need it. It'll never be perfect, and people will always fall through the cracks. But it's certainly better than doing nothing at all.

I don't know that chaps circumstances. His father (family per se) is undoubtedly rich, so perhaps he did get the care for his aspergers that he needed and it just didn't work? Maybe something set him off on the road to self-annihilation that could never have been stopped?

Guess we won't know now. But I think simply dismissing him as a 'villain' doesn't really focus on the issue as to why he did what he did.

I agree, to a point, that the advance in technology can make it easier for humanity to destroy humanity, but I think that's simplifying the context of the world we live in today. After all, the most destructive force in the world as we know it (nuclear weaponry, advanced bio-weapons utilising and so on) hasn't killed us all yet, and I don't see a reason to think it ever will unless circumstances change. Indeed, it's the every day things that are more likely to kill us; global warming, pollution, destruction of habitats that we need in order to live and the subsequent destruction of other life.

But I'm also hopeful. Technology is an amazing force for good. I'm alive entirely because technology has advanced in medicine, as are many millions of people around the world. Technology can uplift societies by creating innovations in food production, water conservation, medicine and automation. It has proven in the past that it can overcome serious and imminent dangers that threatened to cause untold suffering to the world and its population (eg. smallpox).

We are the masters of our own destiny.