• famousringo@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Using something I’ve built to destroy warships before they can launch cruise missiles at an apartment block?

    Now I am become death, saviour of civilian power grids.

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        1 year ago

        That’s an argument as old as time though

        If only they hadn’t invented kitchen knives there wouldn’t be so many stabbings

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            1 year ago

            It isn’t a fallacy, it is just to point out that the military is going to use anything that will give them an edge. Whether we civilians use it or not.

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            1 year ago

            It’s a very similar problem on a larger scale.

            Starlink isn’t designed to be military but it exists on the free market and can be used for military purposes so it is

            Kitchen knives aren’t designed for stabbing but they’re out there for everyone so people are going to use them for stabbing