[Retra]

It is usually better to be the inventor of a new weapon than to sit back and let all your enemies do it instead.

[ben_w]

When testing a new weapon, it is important to make sure it doesn’t explode in your face.

I’m not too worried about genetically modified humans, but I think there is a risk someone will make a synthetic “perfect plague” combining high transmission before it’s symptomatic with high lethality — think “breath transmitted HIV”.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology