From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 19:52:51 MDT
On 10/18/05, Joel Peter William Pitt <joel.pitt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/05, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So do you advocate that scientists keep doing this sort of thing until
> > governments decide scientists have proven themselves untrustworthy and start
> > legislating bans?
> >
>
> Untrustworthy in what way?
>
Can't be trusted to refrain from doing things like publishing the genomes of
deadly diseases!
If we get to the point, some decades down the line, where it becomes
> > possible to draw up blueprints for nanotech weapons, do you advocate
> > treating them the same way?
> >
> >
> If the alternative is them being exclusively controlled by the US and
> provoking other major powers into an Arms race, then yes, yes I do.
I see.
- Russell
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