It shouldn't have to come as a surprise in order to be against it, that's how we get complacent and accepting of this behavior.

I get what you mean and it's a case by case basis, if people didn't try and push any morals we would all live in vacuums where all we have is the law to tell us what is _right_.

A lot of people have no problem with their countries governments manufacturing and/or selling arms to dictatorships that inflict harm on innocents and supply extremists e.g. UK-Saudi arms trading. As far as some are concerned the UK is just doing what another country may do instead.

Is there anyone that suffered a sort of midlife crisis after university? I fortunately have a job as a developer doing what I set out, but find I'm lacking the social connections I once had, especially since moving to a new city with few connections, the ones which I have already I'm fortunate to have, but still the feeling of loneliness creeps into me when I feel like I have no excuse to me. I think I'm lacking the deep relationship where I can open up to someone about how I really feel, rather than the usual conversation of what I _think_. (overthinking infact being a reoccurring problem)

So creating a demand for a market that wasn't in demand, that sounds artificially created, infact it is.

So what? That's how the history of technology goes. Innovations come along that people didn't want until they were there. The technology creates the demand. Henry Ford said (and I paraphrase) "if I had asked people what they wanted they would have said 'faster horses'".

But people could still ride horses when cars came about and they still can, the transition happened over decades. But this change is happening over a matter of years, the reasons for which are not utilitarian.

And people can still use phones with headphone jacks.

Did the existence of cars destroy the existence of horses? Is Apple stopping all companies from using headphone jacks?

This appears to base the arguement comparing to the worst case scenario, we don't need genocidal numbers of casualities to determine if morality has gone out the window. And that's another thing; numbers. The obsession with numbers, body counts, injuries, all to justify the reason we are there. In vietnam the US was fighting guerrilla warfare, in the middle-east it's called terror.

None of this will be declassified for years, it's technically still not over yet, we'll be waiting a long time to know some of the things we still don't know now.

I like the idea of holograms being projected to schools https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/holograms-of-teachers...

This could be useful for general teaching, while the role of face-to-face teachers may change for more one-on-one teaching. Something that many parents long for their children in an age where schools are being shut down and combined into "megaschools" (UK)

And then you've changed the meaning of these pieces of cultural heritage to mean they are some kind of exclusive culture that can only be accessed by the wealthy bourgeois of the world. There would be no limit to this, they can artificially make the price as high as they want. It should be on a ticketing basis that is limited daily, not by pricing out wealth brackets in the world. You can only imagine that of the hundreds of thousands to millions that visit these places every year, there are millions more people that may never visit.

Those nice homes and cars have materials and resources invested into making them. The resources around tourist attractions are limited.

Well there's paintings that are part of our cultural heritage that most of us will never see, other than in reproductions. Doesn't mean you can't appreciate it. I don't really mind if the original is owned by some billionaire. The cultural significance is still something that's open to everyone to appreciate. But we get to do that knowing some guy who really cares about it is spending crazy money on maintaining it.

Grew up as a gamer and general lurker on the internet. Age of 24 and I've packed most of it in and focusing on the hobbies that I enjoyed that didn't involve a digital screen like reading and drawing, but still focusing on very few websites where I can stay up to date on the more educating and hobbiest content of the internet that's relevant to me and not go down a spiral of binging on instant gratification that I can't share or express in a meaningful way with other people I know IRL. Will probably still play games like I still listen to music and watch movies, but much more selective now than I used to be

Mars is the remote backup, but it's empty. Now that's a terrifying thought.

Perhaps taking your frustration out on the people who don't even believe climate change is real, and not the people looking to move humanity towards the stars would be more productive at getting people to care about these issues. Not the ones who have dedicated their careers to a certain scientific pursuit.