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Old 12-20-2017, 09:38 AM   #13
wvaherp
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Originally Posted by Lucille View Post
Perhaps thoughts that there may be some who would love to make billions by creating new needs for vaccines is too science fiction-y. Perhaps not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/h...&nlid=57474085
I saw that article as well. Didn't think of it the way you did there, but there are those in this world I wouldn't put it past.

Engineering viruses like that is yet another one of those things that I really don't think we should tempt fate with. AI is another one. I mean, yes, there were those that had similar feelings about any number of previous scientific advances that could have wiped us out, but many of those still could as well. It seems to me we should try and temper our arrogance about "playing god," lest we end up going to meet him en-masse... Though there is no doubt in my mind that there are those who would prefer we do just that.