<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>metalliqaz</author><text>I used to think the same.  I now think that this reasoning is faulty.&lt;p&gt;Cars can be used for good or evil.  For the most part we leave it up to the users to do the right thing, however we don&amp;#x27;t just leave it up to the users.  If a modern car manufacturer were to make a vehicle with no safety features whatsoever, we would rightly call them out as a bad actor.  Seat belts, air bags, bumpers, crumple zones, defoggers, windshield wipers, and on and on.  We have laws that require a basic level of safety for these potentially dangerous machines.&lt;p&gt;There is no reason we shouldn&amp;#x27;t expect tech and software firms to include basic &amp;quot;safety&amp;quot; considerations of their own.&lt;p&gt;Remember all those companies that helped implement censorship and spying systems for authoritarian regimes?  Still thing it should up to &amp;quot;the lawmakers&amp;quot;?</text><parent_chain><item><author>strooper</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right&amp;#x2F;justified path.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Palantir’s User Manual for Cops</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secret-user-manual-for-cops</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>overthemoon</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t accept this. This is shirking responsibility for what one has brought into the world. Technology has a moral component that can&amp;#x27;t be ignored in the name of progressive idealism.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s both&amp;#x2F;and.</text><parent_chain><item><author>strooper</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right&amp;#x2F;justified path.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Palantir’s User Manual for Cops</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secret-user-manual-for-cops</url></story>