I like Carl Sagan's "science as a candle in the dark." A candle can be used to light a house or to burn it down. What these guidelines say to me is, "Too many

I like Carl Sagan's "science as a candle in the dark." A candle can be used to light a house or to burn it down. What these guidelines say to me is, "Too many people want to burn the house down right now. Our solution is to stop making candles. We'll make wax figurines instead." But what makes candles dangerous is also what makes them useful. To me a better solution (to those of us who use candles for good) would be to help reform the arsonists. Why are there so many of them? Did they get the same education as others? Where do they get their news? What do they believe? What resources do they have or not have access to? Otherwise, good actors are deprived of tools that would let them, as you said, and I agree, reduce human suffering more effectively.