Space research will eventually lead to space war. Encryption shields theives, pedophiles, and terrorists. Nuclear energy came with the nuclear bomb. It's the jo

Space research will eventually lead to space war. Encryption shields theives, pedophiles, and terrorists. Nuclear energy came with the nuclear bomb. It's the job of the scientific establishment to pursue knowledge. It is the domain of social policy to set protections against downsides. You are rationalizing what amounts to a strong institutional bias. That's bad science and will be bad for anything built on that incomplete picture, including official and unnoficial social policy.