Technology is not our salvation

[Dark Jaguar]

Well, related to this: remote control kill-bots are ALSO not our salvation.  I mean, did I need to point that out?  DID I?!



Quoting Penny-Arcade of all things:

I have two kinds of anger. One is traditional and demonstrative, and one is something I instinctively hide. Let me say that his statement made me very still inside. What a crazy thing to fucking say out loud when you're talking about absolving the use of lethal militarized robots on civilians. As we suggest in the strip, "reasonable people" are always tsk-tsking when you talk about Slippery Slopes, or as I call them, "observable reality." It's a way for them to not have to do anything while appearing to do things, which is a really neat trick if someone lets you get away with it.
First of all, bro, those cows have left the barn. There is nothing you can do about that, and even if there were, you trying to scooch pieces around in some electoral metagame when a vote like this is literally in front of you is monstrous. It doesn't matter if progressive candidates get elected if progressive ideals are not manifest in the world as a result. You authorized this wickedness because you think it will be used on someone else, because you know it will, when the only thing you should imagine is one of them coming into your living room because its operators and indeed the entire apparatus of State force is staffed by finite, eminently fallible human beings. Oh! And the deadly robots you just gave them.