I think the problem here is that you are trying to argue for a side: the progressives are trying to “to let things develop naturally,” and so are behaving in a better way than the conservatives who are trying to “destroy” things.
Not exactly. I am giving as a counterexample a class of situations where conservatives try to shape society while progressives are trying to let “nature take it’s course”.
I also didn’t put any value judgement in, at least not intentionally. I described it as “destroying weeds”, which is not a negitive thing. I would say that both sides are trying to “destroy weeds” and shape society they just have a different idea what those weeds are.
But it is just false that one of those attitudes is right and the other wrong.
I did not say there was.
I do think that in the majority of cases new technology overall makes our lives better, and it’s usually better to embrace the new possibilities first and then error-correct later to eliminate uses where it turns out the new technology was not as helpful as it appeared; usually the only way to find that out is to try it, and attempts to restrict it beforehand usually targets the wrong problems anyway. But that’s an object-level question that depends on the technology in question, not a universal truth.
Not exactly. I am giving as a counterexample a class of situations where conservatives try to shape society while progressives are trying to let “nature take it’s course”.
I also didn’t put any value judgement in, at least not intentionally. I described it as “destroying weeds”, which is not a negitive thing. I would say that both sides are trying to “destroy weeds” and shape society they just have a different idea what those weeds are.
I did not say there was.
I do think that in the majority of cases new technology overall makes our lives better, and it’s usually better to embrace the new possibilities first and then error-correct later to eliminate uses where it turns out the new technology was not as helpful as it appeared; usually the only way to find that out is to try it, and attempts to restrict it beforehand usually targets the wrong problems anyway. But that’s an object-level question that depends on the technology in question, not a universal truth.