The biggest problem with such a clause is that it is hard to define “evil”, even if it seems clear to you. Some people think that abortion is evil, so are abortion clinics banned from Json? What about the military and weapon manufacturers? Killing is evil, but you all know how the discourse about the military as national heroes that can’t be evil in the US goes. What about a service like X - is it evil? Can you define “evil” for a surveillance tool that brands itself as ad tech?
The clause also states that the product MUST be used for Good, which is a higher bar. I’d imagine most things JSON is used for are fairly morally neutral.
The biggest problem with such a clause is that it is hard to define “evil”, even if it seems clear to you. Some people think that abortion is evil, so are abortion clinics banned from Json? What about the military and weapon manufacturers? Killing is evil, but you all know how the discourse about the military as national heroes that can’t be evil in the US goes. What about a service like X - is it evil? Can you define “evil” for a surveillance tool that brands itself as ad tech?
Every person should act according to their own morals.
There would be so much violence in the world if they did.
The clause also states that the product MUST be used for Good, which is a higher bar. I’d imagine most things JSON is used for are fairly morally neutral.
Space cops
From my point of view, JavaScript is evil.
a lawsuit waiting to happen. Json has been a real dick lately sending his lawyers after everyone
Yeah I would imagine this is the point
Ask every single person what is the definition of evil and merge all the answers into one definition
The law is basically this, it’s why nearly everyone hates the government.
That’d be all the things.
You’d end up with Schrödinger’s Evil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
I’m definitely going to start using this one!
Thanks!