"# Human society has demonstrated no stability, sociologically, technologically, nor otherwise, approaching even vaguely the time frames required to safely utilize this technology."
This is the key observation, imo, addressing this issue and a broad set of other hot and timely topics, most fundamentally 'globalization' and the utopian yearning for a unified planetary governance (being quite generous and assuming idealism is mixed with the obvious hunger for global power among the promoters and actors).
Many things make sense on paper. Applying them to human society, at its current level of progress, is not a given and we need to exercise caution.
The main issue with nuclear technology is that it is not fail-safe. That by itself is not an indictment (as many have pointed out nearly everything we rely on is not fail-safe). So clearly we need to focus on recovery from catastrophe as an input to our decision making process. An airplane may indeed crash and kill N human beings. But it is a relatively scoped and finite event. People, generally, do not continue to die because an airplane crashed x years ago in their vicinity. Ditto trains, cars, etc.
Nuclear technology disfigures nature as we know it. That is the key issue. This disfigurement is non-reversible (per our technological reach). This lack of room from recovery from error, regardless of the probabilities involved, is what is fundamentally "evil" about nuclear technology as practiced by the human species as of now.
My mother recently lost her brand new iphone (4g). Verizon knows where the phone is (of course) but of course they will not give out that information. Even outside of privacy issues (which are substantial and very disturbing), even at basic customer support level these * are out to * us.
I believe "Zuck" has already made his moral nature explicitly clear for any and all who wishes to review his life history, specially in context of "power, wealth" and "TheFacebook" ..
edit: your competing intelligence agency doctrine is built on a bunch of presumptions (elephants). Do we even fully understand the nature of real power on this planet and how it is organized and exercised? But even if you wish to assume this, the above observation of "Zuck" nature stands.
I wouldn't read establishment media if they paid me (and they do). geez. pay you to serve up propaganda and the usual war mongering in guise of humanitarian concerns? none of this is going to save the establishment media (code word "print"). the eye balls aren't there because the eyeballs on your content leads directly to stomach and mind getting quite upset.
take this post from mr harvard.edu. where does he get $40Million figure from? oh, the other "reputable" news outlet reported it? where did they get it? .... "anonymous source"/"a source close to the idiot CFO of nytimes"/etc.
This is the key observation, imo, addressing this issue and a broad set of other hot and timely topics, most fundamentally 'globalization' and the utopian yearning for a unified planetary governance (being quite generous and assuming idealism is mixed with the obvious hunger for global power among the promoters and actors).
Many things make sense on paper. Applying them to human society, at its current level of progress, is not a given and we need to exercise caution.
The main issue with nuclear technology is that it is not fail-safe. That by itself is not an indictment (as many have pointed out nearly everything we rely on is not fail-safe). So clearly we need to focus on recovery from catastrophe as an input to our decision making process. An airplane may indeed crash and kill N human beings. But it is a relatively scoped and finite event. People, generally, do not continue to die because an airplane crashed x years ago in their vicinity. Ditto trains, cars, etc.
Nuclear technology disfigures nature as we know it. That is the key issue. This disfigurement is non-reversible (per our technological reach). This lack of room from recovery from error, regardless of the probabilities involved, is what is fundamentally "evil" about nuclear technology as practiced by the human species as of now.