Taking a Stand Against Certain Kinds of Research

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In the real world, especially in academia, we have to choose to support investigation of some kinds of curiosity and not support others. There's there are good and bad reasons to take a stand against doing certain kinds of research is what I would say. If there were infinite resources, then there'd be no good reasons to prevent people from doing whatever they wanted, but there aren't. So something has to give.

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