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by swagv1 3518 days ago
All technology adoption curves must go through a "wait, this will kill us" and "what about threats to our children!" phases before they reach widespread usage.
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Yes! Just like biological weapons!

It's crazy how people misunderstand technology, innit.

Care to cite anything here?

Lives saved due to biological understandings?

Lives killed from biological weapons?

Even if you think AID's was from the CIA, it's killed less people than biological understandings have saved.

Luckily, this hasn't happened with nuclear weapons yet.
Abstract it to nuclear physics and it has. Countless of cancer survivors can thank the nuclear arms race and all research from that for their life.
A good thing. When it works, it filters out technology that is actually harmful before it becomes widely used.