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leftyladyfrommo

(18,815 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2014, 10:35 AM Aug 2014

Great! Now we are going to have gun nuts hauling their

rifles around in public and ISIS terrorists living undercover in our neighborhoods. Oh, and legions of killer children coming in from across the Mexican border. Day care centers are going to be hell.

So does it just get so violent that everyone just stays inside all of the time connecting with the outside world completely electronically?

Brave New World here we come. Just because we invent a faster way to do something doesn't mean we have to go that direction. We can always look at the long term consequences of that invention and then turn it down. These wonderful electronics of ours could very well be leading us right down a path to our extinction. Or the extinction of life as we have always known it.

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