Tools, good and evil.

Everything is good and evil.

Every single tool you build is good and evil.

It is good and evil potentials. The more powerful the tool, the more powerful the potential for it to be good and evil.

Keep this in mind in logic debates. Tools are inherently good and evil. The larger the tool, the larger the good and evil.

For example Xfiles. Could be argued it spreads awareness (good) or argued that it desensitizes (evil).
Guns. Could be argued that it saves lives (good) or takes lives (evil.)
A video showing cops as evil. Could be argued it teaches cops to be good (good) or that it promotes cops to be evil (evil.)
Computers. Could be argued it helps life (good) or causes laziness and identity theft (evil).
Robots. Could be argued that it saves energy (good) or steals labor (evil.)
Sex and Birth. Could be argued that it could have a good person (good) or a bad person (evil).

Every tool is good and evil.

For example, a smoothie machine is not a very powerful tool. Therefore its potential for good or evil is not very big.
A nurse hospital room could revive a good person or a bad person, therefore hospitals are good and evil. But a smoothie machine cannot bring someone back from the dead, they can either make a good person slightly more healthy, or an evil person slightly more healthy.

Therefore, all tools have the potential for good and evil. There is no possible way to make a tool that does not.

yes I overall agree.

but what shouldnt be taken for granted is time vs knowledge, was was seen as evil/good yesterday may be considered as good/evil tomorrow. so where do draw the line? Sharing data without antagonism/fear is key and ensures more upsides than downsides, allows to navigate better the thin grey line in the middle and be ready to abandon a point of view as soon as a better solution shows up. Shockwaves to the system are much too often caused by a lack of intellectual flexibility or irrational dualism. The root of all evil, IMHO