We spend more money, time on inventing weapons, says Dr M

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has expressed disappointment that people nowadays are spending more money and time for research on inventing weapons than other useful needs.

He said in the advancement of technology and innovation today, people had bad moral values and were making use of what power they have in a wrong way.

“Today, I am sad to say that every single new discovery is on how to kill people.

“We see the explosives being used for all kinds of weapons to kill people.

“The microchip (for example) is just a collection of transistors that is very much plagiarised. If it is not for the good of humans, I don’t think it should be used in our knowledge and our power to do those things (killing people),” he said during the question-andanswer session after his keynote address at the Perdana Leadership CEO Forum 2019 here yesterday.

Giving the example of the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (Lima) 2019, in the aspect of technology and innovation, he expected it to be a small show with small aircraft.

“We had Lima. I wanted Lima to be a small show, small aircraft. But now you see all those big jet fighters, we glorify them,” he said.

The prime minister said he was sad every single discovery or study in modern times was embarked on with a view to kill people.

“If you spend that amount of money to save people, by now cancer wouldn’t be a problem.

“You should do research on how to treat cancer, how to treat certain diseases, and we should do things that are good for human beings, not for killing people.”