The point wasn't about outdated morality. It could just as easily be a doctored video of Theresa May stabbing a man to death in cold blood.
I think you've focused too much on the specific examples I gave. Consider a faked video of your SO committing adultery, or a faked video of you committing a crime that's used to convict you, or a video of Merkel saying Putin has erectile disfunction or something.
You can't just analyze these videos for inconsistencies; at some point, the technology becomes more powerful than human ability to discern whether it's real. Then what? What do we do once video evidence becomes unreliable?
(By "shocked into silence" I mean, "stunned by how asinine/insane/pointless/cruel that just was".)
I think you've focused too much on the specific examples I gave. Consider a faked video of your SO committing adultery, or a faked video of you committing a crime that's used to convict you, or a video of Merkel saying Putin has erectile disfunction or something.
You can't just analyze these videos for inconsistencies; at some point, the technology becomes more powerful than human ability to discern whether it's real. Then what? What do we do once video evidence becomes unreliable?
(By "shocked into silence" I mean, "stunned by how asinine/insane/pointless/cruel that just was".)