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New Facebook smear button! – Todd Barnard /flickr creative commons: I’m a CEA agent.: [rises from desk, walks over to read ID card] You ARE a CEA agent. And you really did kill someone!: Ahhummm.: Fascinating, Don… I suppose it’s the conditioning of motion pictures, or television, or maybe it’s just it’s the times we live in, but… killing is serious business, yet this little card makes it somehow less shocking… acceptable in a way! You mean to say you can actually legally kill someone?: Yeah, and it bothers me sometimes that I don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t you think that’s psychotic behavior?: No I don’t! It explains your utter lack of hostility. You can vent your aggressive feelings by actually killing people! It’s a sensational solution to the hostility problem.: Doctor, are you trying to tell me it’s all right to kill people?: It’s simply a moral question. Morality is a social invention, and in this case society has decided it’s not only acceptable for certain people to kill other people… it’s even commendable. Don! I’ve got to write a paper for the Institute on this!: I don’t think the CEA would like that. – The President’s AnalystEver wonder why in this age of the Internet, cell phones and iPads – devices and systems that were supposed to bring humanity and the world closer together – that quite the opposite has occurred ?&nbsp; That instead of&nbsp; enabling peace and harmony, we seem to be marching even further apart.&nbsp; My mother was fond of observing that humanity has always progressed further scientifically and technologically than we have ethically and morally.One needs only to study history to see that this seems to be the case. Thanks to a series of articles in Psychology Today we may see why this is the case.&nbsp; . delves into this phenomena.&nbsp; In the first part they give examples of how technology was adapted by primitive peoples to this end.They then argue that the Internet and similar technologies have become to us what the shotgun was to&nbsp; Yanomamo. Enabling us today to take virtual blasts at our perceived enemies.they list Four Types of Online Hostility breaking down each type.The whole series consists of 15 parts and I for one am very interested in what conclusions they had come up with and look forward to the other parts of this series. We like to blame the medium but we are the ones using it for good or ill. We see it here and on other sites, flame wars over inconsequential things. Are just prone to hostility ? One has to wonder…..Shadowproof is a financially independent news organization. All of our funding comes from small donations made by readers like you.We use your donations to hire freelance writers and cover our operating costs. Monthly membership subscriptions give us the stability we need to make plans while ensuring our organization does not depend on grants or major funders. If you like what you read, support our writers with a donation today.&nbsp;

New Facebook smear button! – Todd Barnard /flickr creative commons: I’m a CEA agent.: [rises from desk, walks over to read ID card] You ARE a CEA agent. And you really did kill someone!: Ahhummm.: Fascinating, Don… I suppose it’s the conditioning of motion pictures, or television, or maybe it’s just it’s the times we live in, but… killing is serious business, yet this little card makes it somehow less shocking… acceptable in a way! You mean to say you can actually legally kill someone?: Yeah, and it bothers me sometimes that I don’t feel guilty about it. Don’t you think that’s psychotic...

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