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> violate both a personal code and what I imagine to be the spirit of HN. Thanks for throwing up the Ethics flag. Discussing/brainstorming this in a public fo

• Pet_Ant 6y ago
  > Discussing/brainstorming this in a public forum is volunteering your brainpower in support of murderers. If you think that you in a few moments on the back of a napkin will come up with something that someone funded and fuelled by an ideology that they are willing to die for can't with months of planning, then that's arrogance of an epic scale. This is as ridiculous as don't talk about hacking/spoofing/phishing because otherwise the bad guys won't figure it out.
  • ISL 6y ago
    A worldwide forum discussion among dozens of creative people out to one-up one another on clever strategies for killing another human may well put an effective idea in front of someone who might put it into practice. There are occasions for discussing mechanisms by which one might construct such a weapon. I feel that this moment isn't one of them. Just because we can talk about it (and must be willing to defend the right to talk about it) doesn't mean that we should do so in this context.
    • grimjack00 6y ago
      > A worldwide forum discussion among dozens of creative people out to one-up one another on clever strategies for killing another human may well put an effective idea in front of someone who might put it into practice. You mean writers forums?
    • Teever 6y ago
      This is absurd. How are we supposed to discuss mitigation strategies for a problem if we can't talk about the problem? This is a total head in the sand mentality.