Some basic premises – often fashioned by leaders and supported by the led – exercise the collective conscience regarding the led in so far as they stimulate a development that is willed. The growth is usually superior but maybe not necessarily civilized. The premises in question are with this kind: “Our degree of technological advancement is second to none. Upon reaching this known level, we also have to prepare our society for peace, and to ensure the peace, technology must be revised to foster the policy of war.” Technical advancement that is pushed in this direction sets a precedent that is dangerous other societies that fear a threat for their respective sovereignties. They are pushed to also foster a technology that is war.

This mode of development is perhaps not praiseworthy, nor is it morally justifiable in the domain of civilization. It is socially irresponsible since it is maybe not …