23 April 2007
Do no harm
See I just see a problem with this concept. All these people making all the new technologies will be thinking money. All they think and everyone thinks in the world is money. If companies had a new product that might cause a little bit of harm to the people but make them loads and loads of money, guess what, we are all going to get a little harm. When people invent new things I dont think they really do much to cause harm. I see it as the consumers misuse the products alot of the time and in essence can really cause some harm. I think back and remember about a scientist who created some kind of bomb and it ended up causing a whole lot of trouble. The telegraph was not made to harm but as we can see people still did things on it that were not right to other people. Im sure there was lots of illegal exchanges going on. In all this I wouldnt really say its the inventors fault, its more of the consumer misuse. Lets just hope these greedy companies dont put something out on accident that can easily be abused to cause harm the average man.
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"Do no harm", it sounds like a pretty simple idea to live by but as we all know life is never that simple. Do no harm is a relative term, its dynamic and means different things to different people. It is the plastic nature of the term which causes confusion. Given that, people are going to misuse innovation, no matter its context. People misuse things because for them as an individual misusing a particular thing allows them more utility for less cost. This is basic human nature and we've handled it pretty well so far. As IT progresses in pervading more and more of our individual lives we'll develop social checks to preserve the satus quo or shift it in a way tolerable to society as a whole.
Yeah its never as simple as "Do no harm" I think that term is functionally impossible. No matter what you do, it will hurt somebody. I mean, its impossible to please everyone, as the old saying goes. There are just too many people, too many possible versions of "no harm", to satisfy them all. I think its really more a matter of "do as little harm as possible." You just have to try to minimalize the effects, and plan ahead as much as possible, to see what the audience is that you will be affecting, and how you can best accommodate them. I too hope that the companies look before they leap and analyze the risks of new technology before they send them out into the world to be used and misused.
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