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It's the difference between making fertiliser for farming or to build a bomb. Intent matters. And so if they are creating viruses to better understand how to c
by threeseed 3y ago
It's the difference between making fertiliser for farming or to build a bomb. Intent matters.
And so if they are creating viruses to better understand how to cure them or prepare responses for dealing with them then that is a good thing. Creating a virus for use in a bio-weapon is a bad thing.
If you don't have bio-labs then you don't have cures so we can't get rid of them entirely.
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- MissingAFew 3y agoThe amount of engineering required to go from fertilizer to bomb is astronomical. Deploying a virus covertly does not compare in the slightest, that's a disingenuous comparison and you know it.
- threeseed 3y ago"It's a very simple explosive to make," she said. "In fact, for years the IRA {Irish Republican Army} made their bombs this way." https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/04/21/ammonium-nitrate-explosives-are-simple-easily-made-widely-used-in-industry/f19e2a16-a659-45a8-bdfd-7a1b9c3c0313/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/04/21/a...