Comment by daenz

Thanks for sharing your experience. To your last point, I think it's a tradeoff. The number of individuals getting killed is going down, but we're closer than ever to the ability kill everyone more easily (beyond nukes: weaponized viruses, etc). Scientists who are drawn to a field of research may not be practically connecting the dots about what they're actually working on, or the full implications of their work (eg: gain of function research). These are the people I'm referring to when I mention them not realizing the weight of violence that they are contributing to.