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Re:Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say by tomp on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:36AM (#12015885)
> I don't really think your comparison with nuclear weapons works though

The idea behind my comparison is simply, that we can engineer things much more dangerous than nature can, that would never appear in nature by themselves.

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Re:Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say by TeMPOraL on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:36AM (#12016330)
In this case, dangerous literally equals useful. Anything capable of working with vast amounts of energy is dangerous by the very virtue of humans being very fragile. Whether something is dangerous or useful is a function of how we handle/apply it.

But, generally, that's what we do. With brains, we can do in a few months what would take natural selection millions of years to "discover". Doing that, using our brains, seems kind of like the whole point of being a human.

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Re:Stop Bashing G.M.O. Foods, More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Say by smspiff on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:17AM (#12016179)
We're still a long way from being able to engineer things that are more dangerous than what nature has figured out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

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