April 5th, 2008
Development issues
Hiram Maxim knew that his creation was going to destroy things, and he probably knew that those things were fleshy organisms that had little protection against high-speed metal.
But the sad truth of it is that nearly every advance in technology is coupled with an advance in killing, or maiming, or otherwise increasing the sufferring of someone.
You’re stood there, collecting your nobel prize and somewhere else someone is using your discovery to create a killing machine of some sort.
I know a lot of you are creative types – you all make stuff and I think it’s worth taking the time therefore to think about how your creations could be used for evil… or at the very least what destrution is caused in its making.
Maura on 
I bake cakes with no thought of what havoc I’m wreaking on the thighs of my friends and family.
Stop me before I ganache again.
…and how do you sleep at night?
Aha, but if I were to eat one of your creations, you’d be creating good things for me, since I am an underweight li’l Italian-Welsh boy.
Oh yeah?
Pin some destruction on THIS:
http://franzy-writing.blogspot.com/2007/06/welcome-to-scrollhouse.html
Mothers everywhere will be driven to murder after listening to their kids rhyme off all 101 excuses before bedtime every night.
It is especially evil because those mothers will have agreed to buy the book in the first place ^^
That’s dark. Just think of the net total loss of sleep you’ve caused. Terrible.
I take it that you’re on the lamb then?
I design and draw underground mine plans most days at work.
My ability to design in 3D has change the way our tech-services dept. looks at their designs, increasing the efficency of our mining over all.
We mine coal.
Some days I feel quite bad about how pollutive coal can be and how my creativity is helping to destroy nature.
Cancer therapeutics? I’m at a loss… how can THAT be destructive?
Depends if you’re a cancer cell…
Plus curing cancer would destroy the lucrative business of palliative care.
– you folks know I’m only joking about all of this, right? I mean I stand by the phrase ‘all creation is destruction’, but I don’t really think that what you do is destructive in an emotive way… just in a purely logical one.
And besides, if the movies are to be believed (and I think you’ll find that they are), you’re the guys that invent zombies.
Paul Virilio wrote about this if anyone’s interested - the integral accident whereby the invention of the car is also the invention of the car crash…
I was taking pictures of my daughter in her Easter dress. She destroyed half a dozen flowers, nevermind all the heavy metals that are in the camera and battery I used to take them, the gasoline burned by the trucks that brought the dress to our town, or all those many trucks which shipped the camera to the store I bought it at, the gas I used to get there… the erosion and poisoning of the runoff used to grow the cotton…
nice pictures tho.
Ummm no one has talked about the destruction to the body after the creation of another persons life in it. Is that because I’m an old mum who started as such a young mum that I could never blame the erosion of time for the sudden ripping, shredding and tearing of flesh? I’m coming to think that everything is in a constant state of flux/destruction and that the creation of anything is a myth- it is of course the midway process before the decomposing process starts.
Tchah, I write dark fiction involving mad steampunk inventors with a castration fetish. Of COURSE my work is used for destruction to some people. The idea of creation or destruction is slightly different when you talk about novels or other stories.
Nothing is really destroyed. Everything is only changed. So says the conservation of matter law. I try though…