Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins
by Sporktacular on Saturday January 25, 2025 @10:21PM
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Why don't you just answer the question? A lab leak makes China look incompetent.
It means sick animals infecting lab staff. It doesn't make it look malicious, it doesn't mean engineered bioweaponry, actively playing with fire or any other unsupported conspiracy nonsense.
Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins
by morepedantic on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:19AM
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>Just think about it
This always proceeds a cogent point.
>what's the difference between negligence and malice?
Wrong, these are both theories of Chinese negligence. Did you mean the difference in culpability for positive and negative action? The lab leak is negative action by the Chinese government, and positive action by some subset of the Chinese citizenry. Zoonosis is positive action by the Chinese government. China (government U citizenry) are 100% culpable either way.
Malice only appears in fringe theories about intentional release, which isn't a lab leak by definition.
I'm sorry but we can't this is something you need to figure out on your own. Just think about it for a couple of minutes I'll sure it will be evident.
Here's a couple of hints: what's the difference between negligence and malice?
What is a bioweapon?
Even if there's no malicious intent, assuming only scientific or productive purposes, risk there's responsibility, liability that doesn't occur in natural zoonotic scenarios. See chernobyl.
It's the difference between an act of omission and comission, in one the government and people would be responsible for not hav8ng sanitation, in the other for actively playing with fire. see the trolley problem