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Old 05-17-2015, 10:42 PM   #84 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by P-hack View Post
you are starting with a premise, people suck, they aren't good enough as they are, we have to "save" them from themselves.
But as premises go, that isn't a bad one. People will tend to act in their own individual interests first and by default, as will any organism, even when these individual interests conflict with the goal of well-being for the species as a whole (for example, and as Frank points out, our rampant reproduction--as an individual starting one's own family there isn't a problem, but you get 7 billion+ people doing that and it begins to introduce issues of resource consumption and depletion, space and habitat, food production, water, etc.). I would argue that, yes, we do need to be saved from ourselves because of this dichotomy of what is good for the individual contrasted with what is good for the whole population. I haven't taken a position on autonomous cars yet, however--maybe by the end of this thread.

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