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[–] 1 point 11 hours ago (2 children)

The statement you objected to is:

No technology is evil. They way it is used definitely can be.

If hostile architecture is evil, then hostile architecture used to reduce suicides is evil.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago* (1 child)

    It is fair to judge a technology by the totality of outcomes it produces. You might find a subset of the technology that may be positive but you can't use a part of it to justify the whole.

    It really reminded me of this image.

    A partial perception of a technology might blind us to the overall net benefit.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 hours ago

    Sure, judge the totality of outcomes. Just don't conflate that with the technology itself, whose outcomes change over time as new uses are found and old ones become obsolete.

    This is important because people who judge something evil generally want to get rid of that thing, and reasonably so. But if it's not the thing you're judging, but the outcomes, then it's not reasonable to get rid of the thing just because some of its outcomes are bad.

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