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It is very okay to question the risk-benefit analysis of technologies while also understanding that they can be forces for good and evil.

For instance, Hacker News often discusses issues of privacy, asking whether new methods of finding bad actors could be misused to persecute responsible actors. It is totally fine to say "Is this good thing worthwhile if it could also cause this bad thing?"



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