The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Post-class reaction

Sorry for another late reflection, half the school got sick and I was one of the unlucky, and have been battling illness the past few days. But concerning our class discussion on The Moon is a Harsh Mistress I think our discussion went in an interesting direction. The whole issue of morality is a delicate question, when you throw in artificial intelligence it gets even more muddled. I still believe that an important part of any discussion concerning morality is the situation, because the ways humans have constructed society it’s ok in some cases to do some things or it’s ok for one group but not for another, and often when looking at morality one can see many cases of hypocrisy. So I found it hard to make up my mind completely concerning Mike’s morality especially since we only got one perspective in the book and we don’t know what happened exactly. And I can see that all of you have contemplated on the morality question as well. And I feel like with humanity morality will never be black and white, for example in any conflict the winner writes the history and their actions are justified by the morals and standards of their society. And I think in the future with all new technologies and inventions (cloning, artificial intelligence, etc.) The morality issue is going to get even more confusing, it’s already changing and it doesn’t seem like that will change any time soon.