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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 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.

[MissingAFew]

The 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.

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"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/a...