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Unfortunately, the 21st century is proving to be the era of asymmetry, where individual bad actors can wreak greater havoc than ever before and are making use of that ability. Previous eras had bad actors of course, but they were either constrained by limitations of unamplified individual action or had power so the violations were built into the system as an expected function. That was terrible in many cases, but much more predictable. Now we have both the bad systems and less predictability for having individuals with such disproportionate ability to inflict harm on a massive scale. The commensurate ability to do good has also changed, but it can't easy get past the asymmetrical advantage bad actors have.

- metafilter