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yuti — January 7, 2009 / 8:18 am
In news about war, we can see how bombs kill children and women. Justification of those action was not far from its a consequence of war. The technology can not choose its specific target. Only by one click, someone can kill thousand life. Clean, easy and brutal. The situation has changes radically from the time when war still force people to face their enemy directly. They can choose who they want to kill, it need more sadistic feeling to kill children or even a men.
In food production, technology also help human to kill animal in a huge canning factory. We can avoid the bloody process and eat meat without seeing the killing process. We are clean, but the killing process still continue. We are free from facing the children cry, but it still hapened outside without we are to arrogant to care. We become more mechanistic since we use the medium. We absence in the tragic moment, and we choose to not know.
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