Comment Technology/Pearl Harbour analogies (Score 1) 1402
A couple of comments:
1/ Technology is neutral. It can be used for good or evil. I think we've worked this out by now. It won't save us; it won't kill us. That's up to us.
2/ Pearl Harbour was a large scale military attack against a military target with military objectives (cripple the Pacific Fleet). There's no strategic reason to blow up the WTC and Pentagon. It's just terrorism - causing havoc for the hell of it. The only thing this has in common with PH is that the US is being attacked. I'd call this an atrocity rather than an act of war.
1/ Technology is neutral. It can be used for good or evil. I think we've worked this out by now. It won't save us; it won't kill us. That's up to us.
2/ Pearl Harbour was a large scale military attack against a military target with military objectives (cripple the Pacific Fleet). There's no strategic reason to blow up the WTC and Pentagon. It's just terrorism - causing havoc for the hell of it. The only thing this has in common with PH is that the US is being attacked. I'd call this an atrocity rather than an act of war.
