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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I do worry about breaking my neck! Everyday out at the rig we have a safety meetings where we analyze all the possible ways of breaking one's neck. "Pinch points" are what we call them. Were I to break my neck anyway, there are probably a few people besides my mother who would consider that a tragedy--perhaps even a couple on this forum--but it woudn't be a global catastrophe. So since we do worry about breaking our individual necks, shouldn't we worry all the more about breaking our collective neck?  |
Well for one I do not want you to break your neck. When dealing with humanity it is only with a one to one or individual assessment that shows people in their best light. Unfortunately an outside observer would have to be blind or have impossibly rose colored glasses to view the whole of humanity as anything better than an infestation.
It really is a moral dilemma because humanity if given access to time would be their own worst enemy. Alternately if an advanced civilization had access to information transmitted back in time it is still very bad for humanity. The only groups that might miss us are a few parasitic groups that find us convenient. Information of who we are and access to it and we risk destruction. Even in a multi universe our similar equivalent could and if like us would access our line and make destructive stupid changes (because if given a chance it is a certainty that we would).
I do not want CERN to work or find a solution to humanities questions and curiosities because of what we would do with the knowledge. Scientists do stand accused of t
he practice of science with little regard to morality because as Feynman put it:- "science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it."
—Richard Feynman
Someday and maybe someday very soon we will reap the reward of ducking responsibility.