Two laws you cannot break are Newton’s Third Law of Motion and …
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Author: Tony Colle Stepping Stones to the Mark of the Beast Technology is morally neutral. Great advancements for humanity have come through technological advancements and no doubt, with some notable exceptions, the people who have worked to develop new technologies have done so with only the greatest of intentions or possibly out of intellectual curiosity. Although technology is morally neutral, I believe an argument can be made that virtually all technology came about as a result of what is called “the fall of mankind.” Look at most of the technology that makes life easier today. A great percentage of it came as a result of military research. Even something like the wheel, it can be argued, was needed because a fallen mankind could not gather the food it needed by hand from a ready garden that had no weeds. Why would people need technology to build monuments to an unseen god when the Creator walked with man and woman in the Garden that He planted? If a fallen mankind created technology, a fallen mankind can pervert it. For the most part it has been evil people who have abused the use of otherwise good technology. I doubt the people who were instrumental in developing the DARPA Net, now known as the Internet, never intended for this technology that enabled communication across thousands of miles and connected disparate institutions, businesses and people to be used by predators to lure small children into their clutches or by virus writers bent only upon making life miserable for the unsuspecting multitudes who simply want to use e-mail and communicate with friends and loved ones. So it is with technology that is being developed and coming into widespread use today. With some notable exceptions, developers envision machines, tools, and processes that, when used well, should make life easier, safer or more productive, and raise the quality of life for everyone. Therefore, most of the negative consequences are unintended. Making grains resistant to disease through genetic engineering, for example, can help produce abundant food in countries where people are starving, but what kinds of new allergies might they produce? High fructose corn syrup is considerably sweeter than the sugar we buy in the market but what are its health risks of taking in large doses over a prolonged period of time? Margarine eliminated a source of cholesterol in our diets by replacing butter but what harm have the transfats and heavy metals it contains done? Implementing the Mark of the Beast will be done incrementally by way of several stepping stones, all of which have some unintended consequences that fly in the face of their perceived benefits. Most stepping stones are not dependent on the others but we’ll get there one relentless step at a time. Let’s look at some things that may lead us to the Mark of the Beast merely as unintended consequences of good intentions. I claim no psychic or prophetic powers here. It’s just a look at society and technology and where they may be leading.
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