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"Nuclear bombs are neutral"


Nuclear bombs yes, but what about nuclear physics?


If you don't understand that in a capitalistic society like ours, the tech and the power dynamics of the society in which they interact are indissociable, you don't understand how our world works


No, I just don't think that "technology x sometime/often/exclusively gets used/co-opted/... for evil" and "technology x is evil" are equivalent, and I think that the distinction matters.




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