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Engineering this virus intentionally for research purposes and releasing it on purpose are very different things. If we still haven’t demonstrated the former co
by brazzledazzle 5y ago
Engineering this virus intentionally for research purposes and releasing it on purpose are very different things. If we still haven’t demonstrated the former conclusively why are we even discussing what the consequences should be for the latter?
- goodluckchuck 5y agoWhy do you suggest that hasn’t been proved conclusively? It’s been more than two years no one has located the original pool (and we’ve been testing huge numbers of bat populations) or offered a plausible explanations for how the virus could be anything other than a bioweapon. Essentially none of the virus’s main mutations are things that could have occurred without human involvement and certainly not on the timescale since its last common ancestor.
- 0xy 5y agoIt's a distinction without a difference. The level of negligence required to have it leak from a lab rises to the level of culpability. If you knowingly drive a car with no brakes and kill someone, how is it less bad than driving a functional car and killing someone on purpose? They knew the Wuhan labs had massive safety issues, from years prior to the pandemic. They knew GoF research was risky, and did it anyway. They knew covering it up was criminal behavior, yet did it anyway.
- brazzledazzle 5y agoExecuting someone for negligence is barbaric.