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Suppose that a lab created a novel virus, which then leaked and killed 2 million people, including making you very sick so that you had difficulty breathing for
by justinpombrio 4y ago
Suppose that a lab created a novel virus, which then leaked and killed 2 million people, including making you very sick so that you had difficulty breathing for a month and killing someone close to you. If that happened, might you conclude that maybe we shouldn't mutate deadly human viruses in the lab? Or at least, that the burden of proof that that research is worth millions of lives should be very high?
A lot of people died from Covid; there's a good chance it was due to virus research; even if it wasn't it certainly could happen in the future; I don't want them to have died in vain.
Point taken about the meaning of GoF, thanks.