RE: Not My Meme! #1090

"We can't attempt to prevent everything before it happens."

No, and it's a reductio ad absurdum in progress presently being imposed. The world is, and should be, a dangerous place. The movie 'Wall-E' hinted at what happens when it's not. The bloated, infantilized passengers lived in a very safe environment, and were utterly incapable of anything meaningful.

Free and sovereign people are safe because they're too dangerous to attack. The arms borne by free men symbolize their freedom, but, more to the point, keep it. Pampered pets are safe because they're kept in padded cages, their claws blunted so they don't accidentally scratch themselves (or the furniture), neutered so they don't get into fights, etc.

The true, and worst, danger we face is our very safety being imposed on us for our own good by our masters, upon whom they intend us to become utterly dependent.

Bereft of challenges, of struggle against opposition, we become ever more feeble. With AI deftly solving all problems, removing all effort living requires, humanity will evolve into boneless jellies kept in vats. Theoretically, anyway. Long before that happens our psychopathic masters will crimp off our feeding tubes, declining to continue to sustain us at their expense.

I'll take dangerous freedom.

Thanks!