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U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

(www.reuters.com)
350 points tepidandroid | 1 comments | 19 Sep 19 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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concordDance ◴[20 Sep 19 07:09 UTC] No.21023952[source]▶
Not that this isn't a tragedy (and/or mass murder depending on your viewpoint), but I don't think hackernews is the right venue for this.

Hackernews should try and keep to tech and away from politics or its quality will continue to degrade. For instance the comments here are mostly not saying anything that hasn't already been said a thousand times before (is this just outrage porn?).

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1. hevi_jos ◴[20 Sep 19 09:21 UTC] No.21024733[source]▶
Why not?

Technology has consequences that are ethical issues because it has influence on the lives of real people.

If you create a technology that is used to abuse other people(like facebook spying or manipulating masses or the military invading other countries), you are responsible for it.

The quality of HN improves if the human side of technology and science is openly discussed.

If a drone kills 30 people it is not "porn". It is a very serious matter.

Would you call it outrage porn if those 30 people were from your family?