We could unleash all this technology at once. You can imagine what would happen then. But that's not the interesting thing." "What is the interesting thing?" "The interesting thing is that we have a moral sense. It is on punched cards, perhaps the most advanced and sensitive moral sense the world has ever known." "Because it is on punched cards?" "It considers all considerations in endless and subtle detail," he said. "It even quibbles. With this great new moral tool, how can we go wrong? I confidently predict that, although we could employ all this splendid new weaponry I've been telling you about, we're not going to do it.
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About Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme was a 20th-century American writer and professor. Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war