How technology changes our sense of right and wrong | Juan Enriquez

Sharing, Truth and Non-violence for All.

While we are machines, we are not just 0 or 1
We're complex and our views evolve. I think the majority of people are "in between".. it's the extreme polarization that, while may help evolve our beliefs, are also quite disruptive. Take gay marriage... while someone may have an extreme view of it, they may change their viewpoint if someone they love or care for very much comes out to them. That variability or ability to change, not necessarily instantly but over time, is what really moves us forward

There is no right and wrong. there is only correct and incorrect. Correct moves one forward in the currents of evolution, incorrect halts the forward progress.

The speaker transitions from a correct title to incorrect and even some false or misleading statements . "Our sense" of right or wrong changing does not mean what "is" right or wrong has changed. I agree 100% social media and all forms of media have and will continue to change "our" sense of what is right and wrong. Which is why we should be concerned with who controls or has the power to manipulate these platforms and safe guard every ounce of our 1st amendment, but i digress. The slavery mentioned, for example, is wrong no matter how many accepted it as "right" at the time. BTW the Pope is NOT in favor of civil unions. Rat poison came to mind after i digested this video, mostly edible with the bits that can kill. haha

I am disappointed at the lack of non-voters, the more non-voters means the more initiative for different and/or better policies to be proposed by the politicians and therefore a better candidate.

An awe inspiring talk — well presented with humility and succinct reason... may our society take up this quest to achieve a better life for all. Thank you.

Very very insightful, also technology has facilitated women equality. With running water, vacuum cleaners, washing machine, gas stoves, ...etc house chores and child care became less and less demanding which freed women to pursue positions that are traditionally for men.

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Cool, it’s been a long time since I couldn’t see a whole Ted Talk or not change the speed. Great idea, and it’s worth spreading!

I agree wholeheartedly.

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It's sad that this video even had to be made because not enough people comprehend this concept.

Thank you

I like this video; unfortunately, some people need to make and keep friends by believing what's wrong. It snowballs into the momentum of an obligation of being right when it is clearly wrong. That's why America has become unrecognizable to the extent that we all become in the follower trap at someone else's expense.

Muslim should look at their own privilege before judging others. They worship loudly with their loudspeaker 5 times a day and they wanted others to respect their religion rights.

I couldn't agree more!

Automation made slavery worse. Look into the history of the cotton gin

These advances could be happening faster if we weren't all wage slaves and actually had time to use our talents for good

I suggest Peter Coffin's video on cancel culture

While I enjoyed the talk and agree with some points his basic premise is wrong. His primary example of slavery ignores the impact of Eli Whitney's cotton gin. The gin made growing cotton more economical by decreasing the effort required to process it. The result was the explosion of cotton growing and an increased demand for slavery and for more land to be devoted to to cotton. The end of slavery began with the Enlightenment not tractors. Technology by itself is neither bad nor good. We must use our intellect to use it wisely. Moral psychology tells us while some morality is universal and even innate much of it is written by our culture and as our culture and its technology changes so will our moral code. Technology does drive morality in that we must expand our moral code to deal with new technology such as social media, AI, genetic engineering, etc.

I love this talk!

If right is only a matter of popular opinion, then I wouldn't want to have anything to do with it.

I take the truth as the highest value.

I don't humble myself to evil people, and I certainly don't want to forgive them.

Your arguments sets the stage for revising history to make the perpetuators look innocuous, and thus allow whole communities to go through a repeat of those wicked parts of their past.

If we are really interested in building resilient communities we must stick with truth and justice.

Humility and forgiveness always sounds good in other peoples lips, but never stopped the spawning of evil, in most cases meek and rescindable people were actively put to use by sinister groups.

Humility and forgiveness give way to gratitude, which is the weapon of choice by the depraved.

Beautifully said!🌸🌻🌼
TED always brings great videos to enrich our lives!!!

Mmmm sounds like someone who has a lot of slurs on his fb tl

I 100% agree with this opinion, however making another mankind suffer, sanction, war, torture and killing is always wrong, no matter what or when.

This guy extremely underplays the role social movements played in shifting the overton window. All of the things we take for granted as "right" today were hard fought and certainly wouldn't have magically appeared just because of advancements in technology. Yes, technology can serve as the means by which activists further their cause, but they are not the driving force in and of themselves. Technology is simply a tool and in the end it is people who change our perceptions.

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Wow

Listen to this guy...and then listen to Lt dangle from Reno911...they sound the exact same 😁

I came to write a reaction a paper and stayed for the eye opening insights. Thank you so much!

My concept of morality is based on natural law. Technology doesn't change it.

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Excellent speech

I think this is the main reason why the globalization is not good way!

What is the main sentence? lets build communities? Ok, but why? He said communities can have opposite points of view as he said of BLM and lets respect police. I think communities are something basic for our world. Because they contrive conflicts between people. But conflicts mean arguing, discussion. Finally, arguing and discussion mean trying to find some evidence for their position. Which mean investigation. And this develop our world, our society.

But maybe Im wrong because I also can make conter-example: even without communities we can have artificially created arguing and discussions.. But I think if you have some natural requirements this is better..

Absolutely

This is great! As a progressive thinker I would definitely be open to allowing room for conversation about divisive issues with conservatives who are trapped in their dogmatic belief systems.

amazing speech !!!!!!

I dont understand why someone needs to judge what is right or wrong, just mind your own business, let people do what they want to if its not harming or threatening other living creature

And he is trying to impose his rights even though he is against absolute rights and wrongs and talking about tolerance bla bla. He directly said “most of us are not vegetarians yet”. Excuse me? Who said I had to be one? There is a certain cycle of life and eating animals is completely normal and it is the healthy way of living. If you kill without causing pain, no problem at all. He is talking as his truth is the absolute one. It is the same for gay marriage. I don’t support it and I don’t have a must like that. Instead, I am completely against it. What if I think that it is harmful for the humanity because it makes humankind more open to diseases and it actually bears a risk of extinction due to not breeding? Also should be considered as a disease. Coming from birth doesn’t make any kind of situation normal. Sadism and masochism also might be due to genetic factors and can be congenital. We can not say “oh they choose to live the way they were born and they both enjoy the interaction between them. So we have to support it.” Because it is not natural and is unhealthy. It is the same for the gay marriage. That’s my point of view so I don’t support it. But he again imposes that it is the absolute truth to support it etc. That’s why I see a huge conflict in this speech.

Machine gun definitely change my relationship with people.

How could i find better??? Thanks, that absolutely changes my mind

"When you judge the past, your ancestors, your forefathers, do so with a little bit more humility, because perhaps if you'd been educated in that time, if you'd lived in that time, you would've been done a lot of things wrong.
Not because they're right.
Not because we don't see they're wrong today, but simply because our notions, our understanding of right and wrong change across time."

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So... I'm German. Idk about the ancestors thing :')
I'm all here for finding similarities and not differences and for being understanding.
But I think you should still be able to criticize. That's like the main reason why social morals changed over time. Because people were criticizing these things that were widely accepted.

I notice that this pasty whiner while positing on a topic completely skates over his white family & similar whites as his & their involvement in arguably the worst slavery in North America whilst attempting to paint the original populaces of North & South America as being the worst culprits. Indeed judgment is one sided as he is entirely blind to the advantages that genocide afforded him to thus pontificate...
Best seen as an attempt to validate changing the goal pasts such that the current iteration just now employed is the most & moral & thus is the one that should prevail even though it is only an opinion no matter how highly regarded that is simply a product of culturing culture...
In fact his delusion is so bad that he does not see that the artifice that allowed America to be the worst slavers in the world is still largely intact & functioning as it was intended...

SLAVERY is not in the past

That's all people living today need to hear and understand. Congratulations and thanks for making it available!

Out of this world! If this has you intrigued, a comparable book is my strong recommendation. "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell

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