Qev wrote:Noon wrote:And as much you've no problem with me firing one of these of the same category devices at your heart, without getting into any further specifics of the device with you. After all, they're all in the same category, so it doesn't really matter, right?
Until it actually comes down to clearly harming you, you'll keep putting glasses and brain implants in the same category. Not because it makes practical sense to do so, but because you found a definition that supports the direction you desire to drift toward.
What're you on about now? Potato guns and Barrett .50 BMG rifles are exactly the same kind of device - explosively-driven projectile launchers. You're basically claiming a 1cm granite stone and a 3m granite stone are completely different classes of objects, simply because one of them will kill you if it gets dropped on you and the other won't.
I'm sure many will have faith in your sound judgement, given that if they ask you what will drop in the hallway they are about to enter, you'd reply "Oh, just some granite stone". Whether that's a single piece of gravel, or a human crushing half ton block of stone.
Ask around instead of just trying to attribute this to me. You might find alot of people do distinguish between a potato gun and a 50 cal. Or between a piece of gravel and a 3m square granite block. Even the law does, when it comes to applying them to people. How nonsensical we all are! Either a whole world of nonsensical people except for you, or...
People distinguish between the granite blocks. But the dangerous thing is right now, people might very well not distinguish between wearing glasses and brain implants, particularly when people play burred distinction games, when the difference might be just as dangerous as between the blocks.
And if there is a danger there, people who blur the line between glasses and brain implant will be at a moral level atleast partially responsible for the outcome of that bluring. For the way it affects people who might have a very different reaction if people they trust hadn't blured the subject for them.
Anyway, I'm using the colloquial cybernetic definition of "technology applied to the human body in order to correct or enhance its function". You're using a more science-fiction-specific colloquial definition of "bionic arms and brain implants". Both of us are wrong when it comes to the
actual meaning of the word.
Anyone who refers to there being an 'actual' meaning engages in superstition.