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Towaway69today at 7:02 AM1 replyview on HN

Is there something like the societal license where you can select different levels of harm: a) can be used to kill people b) can only be used to harm people c) can only be used for animal testing d) no harm should come to any living creature, neither in thought nor action.

Something like the creative commons license just for evil.

I like to use non enforceable license such as “don’t do evil” license because it causes meltdowns in the legal departments of large tech companies trying to define what is evil and whether they are committing evil.

Even if its not enforceable, at least it can trigger some kind of a reflection in folks and their interactions with society that supports their existence.


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gus_massatoday at 11:57 AM

> d) no harm should come to any living creature

Can corn farmers use it?

Can it be used in a factory that makes anti-mosquito nets?