From: Joost van de Griek (joost_at_jvdg.net)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 04:18:33 PDT
On 2003-05-06 13:03, Karel Jansens wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 09:35, Jeremy Bond Shepherd wrote:
>
>> The technology to pick locks, crack safes, and murder people has been created
>> and is out there also. I don't consider these activities subject to personal
>> discretion about whether they are morally acceptable.
>
> There is no technology to pick locks, crack safes or murder people. There is
> technology that can be used to do all those things, but the same technology
> can be used to save people's lives as well.
You are of course right. Electric chairs were not designed to kill. :-/
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