Moral judgments aside, one should feel on an intuitive level that in the face of such Lovecraftian monsters as synthetic biology, the threat from Chinese authoritarianism is but a little barking Chihuahua.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. It’s ugly but honest. We emotionally associate to countries as if they’re people. But they’re not. They’re made of people.
Public confession : I hate myself for being happy that China seems to be failing to control the pandemic.
Moral judgments aside, one should feel on an intuitive level that in the face of such Lovecraftian monsters as synthetic biology, the threat from Chinese authoritarianism is but a little barking Chihuahua.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. It’s ugly but honest. We emotionally associate to countries as if they’re people. But they’re not. They’re made of people.