Using Tools: Technology Fulfills The Promise Of Human Rights

By Greg Camp

Opinion

Fayetteville, AR – -(AmmoLand.com)- I have at various times been accused of being a Luddite or a technophobe, and at times, I’ve been guilty of both. I resisted getting a cell phone for years, and I’ve turned off the sassing features (shut up, Siri) to refrain from throwing the thing out the window. Computers are my constant enemy, and this is because the people who program them don’t think the way the rest of us do.

But the reality is that human beings are tool users, a characteristic that we inherited as members of the hominins. As a species, we are not particularly gifted in strength or resilience. Our advantage is a brain capable of devising tools to manipulate our environments. As Archimedes is supposed to have said, give us a lever and a place to stand, and we can move the world. Or we can launch ourselves beyond it, as the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission reminds us.

With all the electrons that I expend on the subject of human rights, I have concluded that while the said rights …Read the Rest

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