Do You Think As Humans are Evolving With Technology, They Are Losing Some of the Humanity/ Morals?

Question

I know not all people share the same morals, but there are essential ones that most cultures and individuals find important.

So do you think, somewhat, technology advances and such are affecting our thoughts, appreciation, and morals?

Answer 1

Humans are evolving with technology, but that doesn't have to do anything with morals. We adults remind the youth morality. What we are loosing is exercise, energy, and socialization.

Answer 2

Yes. This has become a world run by money. I do not even want to know the amount of people in the US taking prescribed drugs, it would sicken me. I do not want to know how many people take modern street drugs such as crystal-meth, how many people have become TOTAL addicted computer freaks, how many are looking at child p**n, how many are pushed to commit crimes - all under the influence of a small group of people who rule this world thru control of the worldwide financial system (Bank of England and Rockerfellers for one).

I have my conspiracy theories Stef, if you ever want to talk abt them :p

Bottom line is the world is worsening with the media pushed immoralities we see day after day

Answer 3

From my perspective, I think popular media has more influence on the change in morality than technology itself. That being said, I DO think technology has changed us as a species - and not necessarily for the better. We are becoming (too?) dependent upon it.

Answer 4

Oh sure, blame it on technology; one of the most technologically advanced societies on this planet, if not THE most technologically advanced, is Korea.  That is correct you heard me, its not Japan, its Korea.  Korea is the most advanced country in the world technologically speaking, because of its dangerous neighbor to the north.  Myself personally I like to think of it as a single country, with the north being tyranized by a rogue criminal state.

One of the most primitive societies in the history of the human race, were the Arabs of Muhamad's time period (Muhamad the prophet of Islam).  Muhamad's depredations, his manipulative nature, and his brutality, is not unlike that the Japanese cult leader of the group known as Aum.  To me, the leader of Aum, and Muhamad, the prophet of Islam, are one and the same.  Only with Muhamad, there was no Tokyo police, or FBI to stop him.  Muhamad lived in a society that did not have anywhere near the technological trappings of Korea.  Yet you look at most Koreans of modern times, and compare them to the Arabs of Muhamad's time, and no one will argue the fact that modern, technologically advanced Koreans, are much nicer people.

Its the same if you compare the Germans of the fall of the Roman empire with Korean or Japanese people; everyone who has been to Germany complains of the same thing "god those people are cold...."  The Germans of Caesars time, were much worse.  In fact, many were arrogant and cruel.  No one will argue the fact that the majority of Japanese and Koreans, are much nicer people, than the majority of Germans.  Modern Japan is clearly enough more advanced technologically than the Germany of Caesar's time, however, that does not make it so that most Japanese or modern Koreans are just as cold hearted and cruel now does it?

Here is something else; the Samurai of feudal era Japan, specifically the warring states era, the Sengoku period, the great majority of them were viciously cruel, and arrogant.  It was in that world that the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was born.  He was not a swordsman who "stuck it to the man."  Nor was he a rufian out to prove how strong he was.  What he was, was a victim of child abuse, who saw every Samurai he met who attacked him, as his abusive father, so, in his anger he killed them, unintentionally becoming a hero to common Japanese who were victims of the Samurai.

The modern descendants of Samurai clans, are very tough in disposition and demeanor, but no nicer or meaner than average Japanese.  Their technologically deprived ancestors though, were cruel.  What this means is, that technology plays absolutely no role whatsoever in human morality, however what does play a role, is whether or not a group of people has a sense of self importance that extends to such deluded levels, they make themselves out to be god.  If the society sinks to that level, there is very little hope for it, and as Mel Gibson pointed out in Apocalypto, historically inacurate as it was, in fact narrating the story of the Aztecs, not the Maya, the moment a society sinks to that level of arrogance, its destruction becomes an inevitability.

Musashi lived in a Japan, far more harsh, cruel, and unwelcoming to outsiders, than modern Japan in fact, if say, either you or I took a time machine, and we went there, they would kill us on sight.  Modern, technological Japanese, are not nearly so murderously xenophobic, and the majority of Samurai descended men, are not rapists.

I beleive society is indeed decaying but, ultimately hopefully, a better one will take its place.

Answer 5

People are absolutely evolving with technology as it comes out.

I don't think it affects our morals per se, but it definitely has changed the way we interact with eachother. With computer messenging, cell phones, chat rooms, and forums, we spend less and less time physically interacting with other people, which changes the way we act in society. I suppose that does affect our use of tact and common courtesy in society, but it doesn't mean that murder and rape have become acceptable, either.

Funny how ironic this is too, discussing how technology limits physical human interation... on an online forum.

Answer 6

most definately. I could not agree more.

Take a look back a few decades.

Take a look at what familes were then, and how they are now.

Because of television, computers, video games, and the like.

No one is social anymore.

That's just a tidbit of what I think , aha.

Answer 7

My computer said you are bad and I'm not allowed to talk to you. But could ya'll like use a shift key, Capitalization and Punctuation are cool kidz. The English language is dissolving before our very terminals.

Answer 8

people are becoming more lazy as technology makes life easier. people have less work ethic because it is no longer life or death and we don't teach responsibility like we once did. we leave revenge up to cops. most decisions can be undone these days. and very little has permanent consequences.

Answer 9

They may neglect some humanity & Morals

Answer 10

Heh, it has less to do with technology than it has to do with the gigantic boom in population. We are on an upward spiral: too many people on this planet as it is and we're about to reach the point where there won't be enough resources to support everyone (some bio books have nice figures that will explain this better). Basically what I'm saying is that the idiots of the world increasingly outnumber those with sense as each day passes. We need to stop making so many babies. -.-

Answer 11

Technology can/ will never be able to alter emotions/ feelings, So there's hope!

Answer 12

No technology can only evolve us socially not physically. Children will get smarted earlier and well be able to learn more than ever people will basically start getting to smart for their boots alot otf rude children earlier pregnancy's lowered social life and more cases of obesity other than that it wont effect our evolution

Answer 13

Well one thing's for sure - we don't have any privacy left.......

Answer 14

First, I think technology has halted human evolution.  The next stage in evolution, if there is one, will be found in the jungles of the congo, or something.  If anything, technology has caused a devolution of the species.  Where certain physical, inhereted traits would cause an individual to be more likely to survive and propagate, and therefore the trait would be more likely to pass on (and those without it to die off), thereby causing an evolution of the species, we have replaced (or manufactured) with technological advances.

But are you asking about evolution or about morals?

As for morals, I think technology has improved our morality in some ways, and hurt it in others (this only applies to those with access to technology, of course).  I think as a society, we are more aware, more in touch, and less tolerant of injustice (ammoral acts) because we are increasingly in communication and witness to events we would not otehrwise experience.  At the same time, we have become overexposed (and possibly desensitized) and increasingly fearful of things we do not need to be fearful of because they do not actually affect us.  

An important aspect, I think, would be the way in which we conduct war.  Instead of being forced to wield a weapon and harm a person right in front of us, we can now destroy many lives with the push of a button, and watch it on a monitor from hundreds of miles away.

Overall, I think there is a better understanding of the world we live in, and possibly a resulting loss in the value of a single life.  At the same time, we are increasingly insulated from life (and death) and therefore less attuned to the consequences of our own actions.