Which societal ills can be blamed on technology?

Whaddya Think?

 

'all of the above'...if there were no technology there would be none of these problems

 

I think laziness should've been added to the poll. But yeah, all of the above.

 

that's very true...i believe that's the main problem w/ ppl

 

It's definitely my main problem.

 

haha...i know, think it's a cause of drugs?...nah

 

Nah, I think it's because of a lack of drugs. I seem much more motivated when I have some substances to endulge in, especially weed. For now, I am without, and completely unmotivated.

 

all of them. especially obesity.

 

Where's the option for "none of the above"? The only one on which it makes even a shred of sense to blame technology is obesity. But, really, why stop there? Why not include any activity that's not conducive to weight loss there, too? Reading books would fall under this category. Is it not just immoderation that's to blame?

 

none of them directly, not on tecnologies themselves, but on our priorities that determine how tecnologies are used and the directions in which they evolve, THEN yes, in THAT sense, all of them.

but you've got to understand, the desire to express ourselves creatively, that and that we are universaly and inheirently gullable, are in our nature and perhase the only true nature that we have.

i'm not sure how many of those named are really social ills at all either. but thing is, all real ones come collectively from, that is the motivations, incentives, markets for them, come collectively from the priorities we actualy live by. ones we may not always be awair of or even occlude subconscously from our conscous awairness.

really it is our cultural core values that have painted us into these corners. to blame our tools for this is just looking for scapegoats. at least inanimate objects are relatively harmless to scapegoat, but no scapegoating is ever all that harmless. and it certainly doesn't solve anything.

is it the fault of a hammer if someone beats someone else over the head with it instead of building a house with it?

no.

but i is a fault of our cultural priorities what we brainwash people into and out of and our motivations for doing so.

i think money is a specific tecnology i would blame for a great deal of unhappiness. but again, is the tecnology anything other then an agent of intention?

we innovate because that is what we are and do. but we don't need to be irrisponsible about the kind of world we are creating by our choices of what and how we do so.

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You can't blame all the bad things in this world on technology, loves.

I, personally, put a lot of the blame on people; face it, people suck.

People don't know when to stop, people have a difficult time learning that too much of a good thing can be bad, people are lazy and selfish.

Technology aids to all of the evil things listed here (and quite frankly, many more) but I don't blame technology.. technology isn't all bad.

 

allof them & more, technology has weakened us as a species, & has stopped natural evolution & began an unatural evolution.
from the very 1szt technology we became weaker..
medical technology especialy weakened us
overuse of antibiotivcs especialy
technologyhas made us so dependent on its use most have forgotten how to survive without it
sociaties ills are much huger then rudeness & obecity, war is technology
probably the very 1st war was over the very 1st fire, or wheel
now we have technology capable of such incredible destructive power..& madmen at the controls
our technology is destroying our environment, someday our technology woill just fail to save us from the dammages done byother technologies..its all a race to stay alive by using destructive means

& yes i realize the irony of discussing the evils of technology on a computer

 

Obesity and lazyness would be the main two. Life is too easy now, there isn't a natural struggle anymore.

 

None of the above.

 

all of the above, but mostly obesity.

 

obesity = computers

 

Which societal ills CAN'T be blamed on technology?

 

um, seriously?

I do think that there were a few rude, obese, poor etc people that existed before technoligical advancements in society.....

 

i would say all of the above and much more..

 

the world would be soooooo much better without modern technologies..it contributes to evil, corruption, and poverty