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by fairity
1639 days ago
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Well, to start with, you're exaggerating. His life will meaningfully change (perhaps for the worse, by his standards), but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfectly happy. To put this another way: is the search for knowledge immoral, if discovering that knowledge will inadvertently harm a person? That's sort of a deep question -- one which doesn't have a definitive answer, but your comment preaches as though it did. |
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> but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfectly happy.
1. The person has actively signaled that they do NOT want to be known by trying to stay anonymous. You're acting against their will. It is thus false to assume that they would like it. They have basically told you that they won't.
2. Destruction, in a minimal definition, means changing something so much it is completely different from what it was.
So to prove this is not destructive, name me the aspects of their personal life which will NOT be affected by suddenly the whole planet assuming they are rich.
There are probably none. Everything of their existing life will likely change.
So this is quite destructive isn't it?
And sure, their new life afterwards (if they don't get murdered) might be likeable as well.
But is it your right to replace the whole of someone's life with something different and expect them to like it?
It's a pretty intrusive attitude.
> To put this another way: is the search for knowledge immoral, if discovering that knowledge will inadvertently harm a person?
Yes in this case, because that knowledge is completely worthless for producing any real usable thing. So there is no benefit of the knowledge to value its harm against.
You can read how Bitcoin works in the source code, and deduce all necessary financial decisions from that. No need to know about the developer is needed. Bitcoin is trust-less so they have zero power on what it does. The code is its law.
So overall, what people are seeking is not knowledge but entertainment.
And it is super cruel to hurt someone for entertainment.