On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 11:28, John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 5:26 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> </span>Almost anything dangerous can be broken down into component steps that are each not dangerous</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>And almost anything that could potentially produce something dangerous that might kill people<span class="gmail_default" style="">, </span>could also potentially produce something that is good<span class="gmail_default" style=""> that could save lives.<br></span></b></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; line-height: normal;">Very true.<br><br>I suppose the phrase 'weapons research' is a bit misleading. It implies that the research can only be used for creating weapons. We can probably change 'biological weapons research' to 'biological research'. Or even 'biological defence research'.<br><br>---<br>Ben<br></span><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span></b></font></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></div><br>
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