[tomrod]

That's very, very disturbing.

If this is an engineered virus, why as a race do we keep doing these things to ourselves? Do we _really_ think that weapons of mass destruction won't be turned on us? Is our hubris so high that we think no one else can replicate what we built?

[ngcc_hk]

Our eye and hand was developed mainly to focus against other humans.

Our military has to study this ...

But officially one has to study this as dual use as one has to prepare the natural evolution of say SARS to another strain. Can’t be sitting duck, let evolution run its course (2% death rate is not high but times 1.4 billion it is 28m people). Hence there is a case to study it, even change it. But then ...

Just like we should fight hiv. But then someone in china use human to experiment on it.

It is not there is no case. There are. Just stupidity of human ...

[nexuist]

>Is our hubris so high that we think no one else can replicate what we built?

How do we know someone else hasn't already built what we've built? They don't exactly post these things on Facebook...

....which is why we have to build it too.

[daenz]

If a horrible weapon can be built, it will be built. And it is better to be the one building the weapon than the one at the mercy of those who built it.