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by brunes 1554 days ago
In my opinion, technology does not affect core morality, all it does is amplify the positive and negative.

The invention of the knife, of the bow & arrow, of gunpowder, of rockets. Each one of these pieces of technology amplified the ways humans can harm and kill each other, as well as created other technological use cases. Their creation did not create changes in morality.

Social media is a tool, no different from a bow & arrow. It can be used for many use cases. Some of them have negative effects. That does not make it moral or immoral.

Technology does not create nor affect morality, it is how the technology is used by individual users that does that.

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Chemical weapons are bad. Covid vaccines are good. These things have some of the more drastic consequences. Yes, there are good and bad things. That doesn't mean the two sides are always in balance (or it wouldn't make sense to develop any technology).