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Max Seltzer
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"Disasters always feel like a thing of the past. We want to believe that better technology, better engineering will save us. That the more info we have, the safer we can make our technology. But we can never have all the information... progress changes the parameters of possibility... we can't even hold onto what we already know."
— Aug 17, 2020 09:06PM
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Max Seltzer
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"When that distance across time and space collapses, the concept of 'the other' loses clarity, confusing our moral distinctions."
— Aug 17, 2020 09:13PM
Max Seltzer
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"Modern technology has robbed us of the sorts of virtue that depend on such ignorance, for ignorance is all too avoidable today. Information technology has multiplied our opportunities to know, and our traditional ethical doctrines overwhelm us by turning these opportunities into newfound obligations to know."
— Aug 17, 2020 09:12PM
