Comments on: In defense of evil

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says reports of evil in high tech and elsewhere are overblown.

[soldack]

evil2.0=capitalism?

It seems to me that much of what is labeled evil these days is just capitalism. Shouldn't evil be limited to committing crimes, taking away or limiting rights, or removing any other choice for the product or service involved?
Some folks seem to want all the good results of capitalism but none of the bad. On the other hand, there seems to be a desire for socialism but ignorance of its flaws.

[Skiggety]

In defense of thought

Attempting to conflate such disparate issues only serves to further confuse the subject(s).

When the only common thread is things-that-have-been-labeled-evil-by-somebody, it should be no surprise that genetically modified food, which makes it possible to feed [more] impoverished people, is compared to businesses with anticomepetitive practices, which only hurt people.

If a moment could be spared to discuss any one of these separate issues, we might have learned why DRM presents a fundamentally flawed security model, or something about potential loopholes in our implementation of capitalism.

Instead, the article implies that we shouldn't care about the real evils in the world, simply because some people may have been overzealous with a word.

I submit that caring about an issue should be reason to learn more about it, instead of being distracted by those that don't care.

[jmanico]

GMO Stupid Comment

In regard to your foolish comment "Genetically modified foods are evil, though farmers and scientists admit that they lead to a reduction of chemical pesticides."

Organic and natural methods of raising food ALSO reduce chemical pesticiddes but it human-labor intensive. You really think GMO (Genetically Modified Foods" are NOT evil cause they are so TWEAKED they do not always need chemicals for development? Dude, look up "Round-Up Ready Soybean" and really understand whats going on here!

[Dachi]

I can't be "good" unless

There are people out there I can point to and say "Now That guy, he is evil".

If not for people out there doing really bad things I think most of the population would become really depressed or something.

This is part of the reason people like Jerry Springer. The low lifes on that show allow people to redraw their metric.

You have people selling drugs out of their place in the projects watching the show saying "Wow, those people are such scum."

People like to judge others on their own strengths, and when that fails, watch Springer or hate on MS.

Nothing like some good old fashioned MS bashing to help me wake up in the morning feeling good about myself.

[ree_ree2702]

Evil 2.0

Evil 2.0 seems to be the epitome of a fundamantal law of the universe and everything in it. Change. "The only constanst in the Universe is Change". Case in point:

The Oil & Gas companies are raking in record profits because the supply of oil is changing.

The rash of Patent disputes lawsuits that have cropped up are the result of changing business models. Create a patent, never use it, wait for somebody to unknowly use it, then sue like hell.

The EFF and the ACLU are screaming bloody murder about freedom of speech and civil rights on the web. This is forward change from traditional Print & TV Media. In some cases, laws that exist in the Print/TV world, do exist or cannot extend to the Web. Congress is in the works to change that.

Big Media is watered down because they have extended themslves in other Industries or have been purchased and merged with other companies in other industries to the extent that their are few "original" media comapnies left. That swallows up the radical, free thinking, act on your gut journalist.

Change. Ironically, it is the only constant in the Universe.