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The question is where and how do you draw the boundary for censorship? If you can't use science to draw the boundary, what is left? Let humans with their own bi
by hbrn 4y ago
The question is where and how do you draw the boundary for censorship? If you can't use science to draw the boundary, what is left? Let humans with their own biases do it? This inevitably turns into dictatorship.
You can come up with hypotheticals where truth strategy may harm some people.
But censorship strategy is guaranteed to harm more people in the long run.
Also your hypotheticals can be easily countered:
> disease that is entirely harmless but 100% infectious and deadly to some group (e.g. Black people). Now should that research just be released into the public? This might encourage some groups to purposefully infect these people, thus putting them in significant danger.
Let's say you decided to censor your research. And then few years later the groups that you mentioned got lucky enough to discover the same disease. Now, because your research wasn't public, the world was not able to develop a cure.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.