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Re:Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel b... by toyg on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:34AM (#25959122)
Suppression, no; but choosing priorities carries an element of ethical responsibility. You can choose to dedicate your time towards improving chemical weapons or towards improving harvest yields. Better chemical weapons will likely come about anyway, but why hasten their arrival?
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Re:Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel b... by ballenf on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:01PM (#25961651)
Isn't that a first order effect though?

A second order effect would be researching a life-saving drug for a lifestyle condition. You research means people have less incentive to live healthily and end up dying even sooner from some other diet-related disease. The disease you cured would have scared them "straight" diet-wise.

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Re:Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel b... by toyg on Friday January 29, 2021 @10:15PM (#25965669)
This is nitpicking. Replace "improving chemical weapons" with "improving gases that will likely only be used in chemical weapons".
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