In Reality, Most People Who Say They Are Affiliated with Some Religion

[MineralMan]

58. Smartphones are inanimate. They are neither good nor bad.

They are merely a tool. I don't normally carry one, since I spend hours sitting in front of a much more convenient tool on my desk. However, I'm about to fly to California for six days. I'll be taking the extra smartphone we have. We have an extra one because my wife reviews things and needs both an iPhone and and Android phone when reviewing apps.

So, that smartphone will be in my pocket for this trip. It also can serve as a wifi hotspot, something I need because the place I am staying has no wifi capabilities. I'll use that to enable my 8" Kindle Fire tablet, which gives me easy access to the Internet.

Tools. I use them for the purposes I consider important. Others use them in different ways. Still, intrinsically, smartphones don't suck. They don't actually do anything without human input. If they are used to do things that suck, then it is not the phone's fault.

Smartphones are not sentient. They are simply machines we use to do what we think is important. They have power switches, too. Mine are off when I don't need them.