Sure, but that appears to be a non-option at this point in history.
It is an option up to the point that it’s actually built. It may be a difficult option for our society to take at this stage, but you can’t talk about morality and then treat a choice with obvious ethical implications as a given mechanistic process we have no agency over in the same breath. We didn’t need to exterminate the natives of the Americas upon first contact, or to colonize Africa. We did it because it was the path of least resistance to the incentives in place at the time. But that doesn’t make them moral. Very few are the situations where the easy path is also the moral one. They were just the default absent a deliberate, significant, conscious effort to not do that, and the necessary sacrifices.
It’s also unclear, because the world as it stands is highly, highly immoral, and an imperfect solution could be a vast improvement.
The world is a lot better than it used to be in many ways. Risking to throw it away in a misguided sense of urgency because you can’t stand not seeing it be perfect within your lifetime is selfishness, not commitment to moral duty.
At which point maybe the moral thing is to not build this thing.
Sure, but that appears to be a non-option at this point in history.
It’s also unclear, because the world as it stands is highly, highly immoral, and an imperfect solution could be a vast improvement.
It is an option up to the point that it’s actually built. It may be a difficult option for our society to take at this stage, but you can’t talk about morality and then treat a choice with obvious ethical implications as a given mechanistic process we have no agency over in the same breath. We didn’t need to exterminate the natives of the Americas upon first contact, or to colonize Africa. We did it because it was the path of least resistance to the incentives in place at the time. But that doesn’t make them moral. Very few are the situations where the easy path is also the moral one. They were just the default absent a deliberate, significant, conscious effort to not do that, and the necessary sacrifices.
The world is a lot better than it used to be in many ways. Risking to throw it away in a misguided sense of urgency because you can’t stand not seeing it be perfect within your lifetime is selfishness, not commitment to moral duty.