I don't believe that government is good at picking technology particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy it's so outdated.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Who can be against progress after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word – because for the Progressive progress is marked not be how free you are but how much government can 'do' for you.