[readthenotes1]

Not that this brightens your day, but it's not just the evil and/or short-sighted capitalists:

"Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks."

Pride is a stronger motivator than greed.

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-argued-benefits-gain-function-1...

[justinclift]

"Some of you may lose your lives in this endeavour, but that is a risk I'm willing to take." ;)

[lupire]

Fauci's argument was that pandemics happen naturally, so it would be better to get ahead of them in the lab. Was he wrong? Maybe. Or maybe Covid was totally natural and we needed GoF research to help with vaccines. Fauci also acknowledged the validity of concerns, in that same paper.

Is it bad to run a biolab next to a naturally virus -heavy environment? Probably. Is it bad to trust the Chinese Communiat Party with a biolab,given their decades long record of oppression the Chinese epoeple and suppression of the press? Probably.

Vinyl Chloride gas clouds, by contrast, never appear naturally.

[readthenotes1]

Is it wrong to hide a dangerous experiment in a foreign country that has been explicitly forbidden in the United States because it is so dangerous?

I think the answer to that should be obvious.