[bpolverini]

I can see Orwell was right already. "Terrorism" (the word) has become, by and large, a tool of nation-states and institutions like RAND to legitimize another horrific term: "extra judicial killing" (i.e. murder).

The last thing we as technologists need to do is feel obligated to take part in some continuous war against a concept that cannot be defined, with a victory no one understands or articulates.

Liberty has costs. We can either live in perfectly monitored and managed security (i.e. fascism) or make trade-offs that give us privacy and freedom critical to human flourishing.

[kordless]

Our propensity to decouple suffering from causality is disconcerting. Complete elimination of suffering equals complete integration of all interests. Sounds fairly inefficient to me.