One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note? - Jack McDevitt

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.

Technology is dangerous."
"How do you mean?"
"It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.

Charlie was not a believer. He did not expect to be called to account and assigned a score for what he had done or left undone. His parents had believed in a mechanical world, a place of evolving hardware and software, no deities need apply. We just haven’t figured it all out yet, his father was fond of saying. Things get more complex and we don’t know why. But that doesn’t mean we have to ascribe it to divine providence.