“Ethics and logic are entirely compatible. In fact, is is logical to be ethical.”

Ethics is a personal rationalization. You use your logic to come up with what you rationalize would be a good use of your knowledge. The suidide bombers think it is perfectly logical and ethical to kill the elitist americans–because this is what they know to be true.

“This device is not an example of “new” knowledge. Nor is it dangerous in and of itself; but it’s possible misuse is entirely foreseeable. I saw it, therefore it is foreseeable.”

Again, your rationalization says that if you can see a misuse of something, then something should be done about it to prevent said misuse. That is simply not possible in the real world. Otherwise, we would not be able to do anything–as anything can become a blunt weapon, when held above the head and brought down swiftly onto a body part.

“It is no secret either that devices like this have consistently been applied for intentionally deadly purposes.”

So have cars, buses, women and children, envelopes, packages, rocks, pencils, trees, and just about everything else.

But those objects–just as this design–require SOMEONE to physically use those objects in a way that will harm others. They do nothing by themselves to otherwise harm people.

“The inventors intent is likely not to cause death and destruction; no more so than White Star line intended death and destruction when it built and launched the SS Titanic.

To the naval engineers I’m sure that coffer dam bulkheads sounded like an idea that would make “unsinkable” ships a reality.”

Ah, okay. So they didn’t foresee the death and destruction then? Oh, right. They didn’t know that they would run alongside the iceburg flooding the first ones sending the bow down into the water while the aft of the ship was sent into the sky–to break in half and then come crashing down into the water.

So, by your logic/rationalization, they should have foreseen that the cold water would kill the passengers–a known way to die at the time–and therefore prevented the titanic from sinking by never letting people set foot on an obvious death trap.

I will reiterate: Knowledge is not evil. People have the choice to use knowledge for good or for evil.

It is no secret either that devices like this have consistently been applied for intentionally deadly purposes.

The inventors intent is likely not to cause death and destruction; no more so than White Star line intended death and destruction when it built and launched the SS Titanic.

To the naval engineers I’m sure that coffer dam bulkheads sounded like an idea that would make “unsinkable” ships a reality.

Ooopps!

By your logic, Varient6, we shouldn’t be driving cars for fear they can be made into car bombs.