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[–] 0 points 10 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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