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It is completely inconsistent to think a political structure that would put a million people in forced work camps would never ever do something like this delibe
by whiddershins 5y ago
It is completely inconsistent to think a political structure that would put a million people in forced work camps would never ever do something like this deliberately, or cover up an accident.
Calling people partisan hacks for mentioning that does nothing to surface truth.
- munk-a 5y agoI actually do find it extremely hard to believe that even the Chinese government would be able to internally formulate a plan to intentionally release a virus without droves of bureaucrats coming out as vocal whistleblowers. When you have a large organization (especially one as large as the Chinese government) you're going to have some actors with strong ethical beliefs. Deciding to take this course of action (for some reason whatever it may be) and then actually implementing this action would be incredibly difficult. Silencing discussion about an accidental release is in a completely different ballpark where you're working to (in your view) prevent harm - not cause it. The intentional weaponized release angle of lab-leak entirely preempted any reasonable discussion on the matter.
- whiddershins 5y agoDon’t you just need literally one guy who you blackmail and then kill afterwards?
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- whiddershins 5y agoIs your feedback that if I see something incendiary the worst possible thing I can do is counter it, but instead I should downvote, flag, or simply ignore? It wasn’t obvious to me my comment was furthering a flame war, but if the above heuristic is a good one I will try for that. I get frustrated when I leave 500 good comments only to get dinged for an outlier.