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Old 2011-03-03, 13:51   Link #40
ruurguy
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Originally Posted by scr View Post
It's in the nature of humans to realize a mistake and then fix it. They know that there are problems with fuel (to put it mildly), and try to steer themselves into using clean energy. The same goes with crops. By "carefully engineered", it means that the crops are always under all kind of scrutiny, testing, etc to make it safe, for now and for the future. And things are _never_ clean and neat. Scientists make all kind of theories all the time, some has stronger bases than others, and then some of them are proven right (and become new bases) and some of them are proven wrong (which most people outside the labs rarely see). My point is that no one should be jumping the gun just because it's the most obvious action at the time.
My point was you are trying to make it clean and neat though. The fact that you completely dismiss QB as essentially evil is very much clean and neat. The fact that you think that with all our testing that twenty years from now we won't discover some flaw with your "carefully engineered" crops is clean and neat. People can put in every effort of their investigation right now, have all the best intentions of the best way to go for now and the future. AND IT CAN BE ALL WRONG. For all we know that's what QB in fact has already done. Maybe they tried 10 million things. And decided after research, the least damaging thing they could do was to find girls to go through this cycle. They carefully studied this, carefully engineered how it would work, put every effort to minimize the damage. And yet it's really really wrong. Of course the characters are going to fight it and probably find a better idea. That is how anime goes.
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