Can something ever be neutral?

This discussion in this weeks lecture came up with examples of how nothing is neutral. Anything that people came up with always had a connection to one thing in way way or another. Well I guess it depends on what your definition of neutral is and what it is that is neutral from it. This discussion got me thinking . . .

I think that it is pointless for someone to find something neutral because if that someone can reference it in some way, it is not neutral. Does this mean that nothing is neutral though? No, as Socrates states – man knows nothing, a smart man knows he knows nothing. If something is completely neutral then we will never know of it because it is completely neutral, but just because we can’t or will never know at it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist . . .

once again though it depends on what context you are putting onto the word neutral. . . if it is in the context of existence then it can’t be neutral because it exists, but in other contexts it might be neutral. Lets take Switzerland in the war for example, they were neutral. Words mean what humans make them mean and by saying that Switzerland is neutral in terms of war efforts that is what neutral means in terms of war efforts. A party that doesn’t take either side and stays to themselves.

So, can specifically technologies be neutral? Can technology be an independent party that doesn’t take to anyone else’s side? Well no, not yet anyway, we could go into the whole artificial intelligence and everything but I digress. . . Technology is created by someone for someone, technology is a tool, to make a tool that doesn’t help anyone/anything is pointless and therefor not a tool.

Fairly philosophical post this week ^