Problem: Is technology more helpful to good or to evil (LDS frame)?
(Hypo) Thesis: Technology fosters evil more than good.
Definitions:
- Good: The work of righteousness through Jesus Christ.
- Righteousness: Ministering to the needs of others.
- Evil: Anything not as good as it should and could be.
- Power: The ability to accomplish what one needs (desires) to accomplish.
- Technology: Power to cause change in (on) matter by the application of physical force.
- Priesthood: Power to cause change in (on) matter by the application of spiritual force.
Argument:
- Jesus Christ gives men technology and priesthood.
- Jesus Christ wants men to be able to use both technology and priesthood in solving problems, and to act according to His instructions at the time in using each. To act in faith (obedience to His instructions at the time) is the only way to please Him.
- The use of priesthood depends upon faith (righteousness).
- Not everyone knows Jesus Christ well enough to enjoy having the priesthood power.
- Most men are ignorant of Jesus Christ, or are unrighteous, or both, so must depend upon technology to solve their problems.
- Technology is always limited so that men will see the need for more power.
- Men inclined to righteousness will welcome the opportunity to gain additional power through the priesthood.
- As technical power grows, most men feel less need for priesthood power (carnal security).
- A person who has priesthood power can survive and prosper at any level of technology (stone age to the future) because he can fully accomplish his mission by using the combination of the two authorized by Jesus Christ.
- An increase of technical power increases the power of unrighteous and ignorant persons to fulfill their desires, but does not always increase the opportunity for righteous persons to fill their missions.
Therefore: An increase of technical power is more helpful to evil than to righteousness in many cases.
(Is this why technical power has been allowed to flourish only just before the world is about to be destroyed?)