It can’t enter the universe of ethics, nor should it. That is my entire point.
Man enters the universe of ethics when he endeavors to apply a neutral tool either rightly or wrongly.
A concept that can exist without participants can drive something, because we have chosen to use it as our drive.
If we stop using it, surely its concept will still exist, it will simply not be employed.
But what we have here is a user of the tool qualiyfing the nature of the tool by applying the human characteristic of ethical choice to it, and as a result, some begin to question the nature of the tool when they should be questioning the nature of the user of the tool.
Should this application be successful, the likely result will be a change in tools, but not a change in users, and such a choice will end with similar results, corruption and greed, because that is the nature of man, and not the tool.
A concept that can exist without participants can drive something, because we have chosen to use it as our drive.
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Precisely. And who is the “we”-— people. So, we have a conceptual car, and people get into it for the purpose of driving it. Now, since you concede that people drive the concept, the next question for you is are all people ethical? Are they perfect?