• minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Science is also how they can cause such devastation. Maybe all you scientists should stop empowering the assholes who murder people?

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      15 hours ago

      Science didn’t put assholes in control. It is the anti science US, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers who put them in.

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        1 hour ago

        But science builds the machines of war. Science unlocks the power inevitably used by those leaders to make war. Scientists are not free from responsibility just because they don’t pull the trigger. They enable the building of the entire gun. At what point to scientists say ‘no more’ and refuse to continue to empower these leaders?