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>>11499281
Based anti-civilization poster

"To address a few specific points from Kurzweil’s article:

He asks: 'Should we tell the millions of people afflicted with cancer
and other devastating conditions that we are canceling the development
of all bioengineered treatments because there is a risk that these same
technologies may someday be used for malevolent purposes?' Kurzweil
fails to note that cancer results largely from the modern way of life (see
my letter of March 17, 2005), and the same is true of many other “devastating
conditions,” e.g., AIDS, which, assuming that it occurred at all,
would probably have remained localized if it had not been for modern
transportation facilities, which spread the disease everywhere. In any
case, what is at stake now are the most fundamental aspects of the fate
of the whole world. It would be senseless to risk a disastrous outcome in
order to prolong artificially the lives of people suffering from “devastating
conditions.”

--Kaczynski, Technological Slavery, pp. 206-207.

If we didn't have mass transportation, overpopulation, mass production, globalization etc. etc. (all caused by modern technology) then in all likelihood we would never have this "epidemic." This is all made possible by modern tech, and things like this will get worse and worse so long as tech continues to grow.

>>11411348
FPBP