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Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
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RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall?
June 25, 2019 at 6:44 am
(June 24, 2019 at 9:49 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Same can be said for oxygen.  Perhaps we should say whether oxygen is good thing or not depends on the ethics of the person breathing it.

A very good point.  Technology in and of itself is neither good nor bad.  It is the uses to which technology is put that can be problematic.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ColdComfort - June 22, 2019 at 8:30 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Anomalocaris - June 22, 2019 at 8:39 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Brian37 - June 22, 2019 at 9:16 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ColdComfort - June 22, 2019 at 9:45 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Brian37 - June 22, 2019 at 9:51 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Chad32 - June 22, 2019 at 9:44 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Chad32 - June 22, 2019 at 10:17 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ColdComfort - June 22, 2019 at 11:51 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Abaddon_ire - June 23, 2019 at 12:57 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ColdComfort - June 23, 2019 at 1:19 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Abaddon_ire - June 23, 2019 at 8:12 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by brewer - June 23, 2019 at 7:59 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Chad32 - June 23, 2019 at 8:39 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by The Valkyrie - June 23, 2019 at 8:43 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by AFTT47 - June 23, 2019 at 10:33 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Anomalocaris - June 24, 2019 at 5:19 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Brian37 - June 24, 2019 at 6:22 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Anomalocaris - June 24, 2019 at 9:49 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 25, 2019 at 6:44 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ignoramus - June 25, 2019 at 6:14 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ignoramus - June 25, 2019 at 7:27 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Angrboda - June 25, 2019 at 2:56 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ColdComfort - June 26, 2019 at 3:19 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by no one - June 25, 2019 at 3:13 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Peebo-Thuhlu - June 25, 2019 at 3:37 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Sal - June 25, 2019 at 3:49 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by brewer - June 25, 2019 at 4:01 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Aegon - June 25, 2019 at 4:16 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Anomalocaris - June 25, 2019 at 4:52 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Anomalocaris - June 26, 2019 at 2:33 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Aegon - June 26, 2019 at 12:30 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Fake Messiah - July 3, 2019 at 4:18 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Macoleco - June 25, 2019 at 5:21 pm
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by ignoramus - June 26, 2019 at 2:16 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by veoli - July 7, 2019 at 5:21 am
RE: Technology, Good or Bad Overall? - by Chad32 - July 7, 2019 at 1:02 pm

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