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Russell has stated the dangers of GE.  There are some corollaries
that he's missed.

Nature abhors a vacuum.  Or, rather, nature seeks a balance.  For, at
the very least, the past 300 years, humans have been on the
unquestioned top of the chain.  We have no real natural predators,
and are able to deal quite effectively with any creatures that we can
see.

If all the cats of various sizes in the world were to suddenly decide
that it was their time, we'd lose a lot of people to their house
pets, but then the cats would be systematically dealt with.

Now, on the other hand, we have virii.  We are completely vulnerable
to these little guys.  We can only beat them after someone has fought
their own internal battle with one and won.  Then we have some
ammunition to fire back, but until then, we can't do anything except
aleviate the symptoms.

Now, if we can't really fight virii, then they would make the
ultimate predator for us.  Our only recourse would be wholesale
destruction of a contaminated area.  Which, if it were our own labs
that created the monster, would mean that we had to destroy the only
evidence that would allow us to cure the problem.

How ironic would it be if we were to create our own natural predator?
 I hope we, as a race, are smart enough to edge around the pitfalls
rather than jumping over them, since we obviously can't jump that
far.

- --Brendan

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