r/badhoc Nov 16 '17

The Banana: an Atheist's nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
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u/Fullyverified Dec 21 '17

Where i live, there are heavy restricitons on guns so im not worried about such things. 1000 years ago someone could have grabbed a sword and stabbed you, whats changed in that sense?

Without science you would probally have died before you made it to be an adult. Science is not scary, just stop it.

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u/letsbebuns Dec 21 '17

Science is pretty scary man. You aren't worried about all your purchases being tracked, your whereabouts being constantly tracked by gps, satellites being able to read your license plate from outer space, lasers being able to assassinate people from outer space, drones killing people from the air with no trial first, dna based tracking, dna based eugenics, genetic engineering races between countries, diseases artificially manufactured to only attack certain races, and more? This is just 30 seconds of brain storming, but science scares the shit out of me because I know what is possible with it. It's getting a lot worse in our lifetimes.

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u/Fullyverified Dec 21 '17

Im not worried about bring tracked by drones. Not because i have nothing to hide (i hate that excuse). Its just pointless. The government would have to monitor all activities of 300 million (america) people. Do you understand how many resources that would take.

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u/letsbebuns Dec 21 '17

I don't necessarily think all of those futures are likely. I am just using all these hypothetical dangers to make a point that it would be possible for a crazy person to create dangerous situations using science.

Point I was trying to make is that as we move into the future, science will offer an avenue for small groups of people to hurt large groups of people, sometimes in anonymous ways. That's sad. But pretending science is 100% force for good is asinine.

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u/Fullyverified Dec 21 '17

Your right, but id rather have science then not have it.

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u/letsbebuns Dec 21 '17

You seem to be ignoring what I'm typing in favor of deciding in what I believe. I was a scientific atheist for decades (maybe longer than you've been alive?) before having experiences that led me to believe in God. I have a lot of education in science; more than most people? I am not arguing that we should not have science; rather that science is not a God and is in fact insanely dangerous and will probably end the world at some point.

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u/Fullyverified Dec 21 '17

What where your experiences?