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Sure, but not all tools have an equal ethical space in which to be utilised. A tool made specifically for torture (say a device to painfully remove fingernails) will tend to be used for morally bad things (using a reasonable assumption that torture is bad). Could it save the planet by torturing a specific person in a specific situation? Could it help remove that deadly fingernail from a patient? Sure, but its space for evil acts is much broader, and very different to say a ventilator, or an Xbox. The reality is that the potential of science and technology to achieve things seen as good and bad does differ, and the magnitude of that power.



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