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Hypothetically speaking, if it is ever proved that SARS-CoV-2 was indeed leaked from a lab, and that the people working there are guilty of gross negligence and
by 323 5y ago
Hypothetically speaking, if it is ever proved that SARS-CoV-2 was indeed leaked from a lab, and that the people working there are guilty of gross negligence and the evading of gain of function controls, what do you think the punishment should be? Considering ~20 million world wide excess deaths.
Or should they just be forgiven because they were scientists with good intentions.
- hallway_monitor 5y ago
- joebob42 5y agoI'm not personally in favor of sizing punishment based on the outcome as opposed to based on the action. I'm not sure how it serves society other than some sort of sense of vindication to kill all these people.
- nickff 5y agoThe even bigger (to me) question would be what level of liability would be attributed to people who granted funding or otherwise supported the work. Would they be charged with 20MM counts of contributory negligence? This situation does seem to have been “foreseeable” in the legal sense.
- nl 5y agoWhat has that got to do with anything I said?
- lupire 5y agoThis wasn't a single scientist or conspiracy, even in the worst case. This was a systemic problem. The US President promoted the virus spread because it hurt NY and NJ more than the South. If you execute everyone negligent, society will collapsed. And then when you look at the negligent executions, more.