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i propose that morality will never be able to keep pace, side-by-side, with the advance of technology.
if making the moral choice is doing what is right in a given situation, then you must draw your sense of what is good and what is bad from pre-existing experiences. if there is no experience history to draw from in a new situation (new application of technology), then morality doesn't really exist for that instance. the only thing we can do is to attempt to apply any of the new situation's likenesses to a familiar situation and try to respond accordingly. but, we are never having a direct moral response to the specific technology until we have built up a base of experience-knowledge about it.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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