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March 31, 2008
When is it OK to destroy the Earth?
Anders Sandberg writes in Practical Ethics.
In the article Extinction Risks and Particle Physics: When Are They Worth it? Sandberg writes about risk evaluation in inconjuction with the recent law suit against CERN.
If there is a tiny risk that the implemented particle physics experiments conducted at CERN will destroy the world is not that a good argument for not turning performing that research? It turns out that if it makes our lives just a tiny bit better it may still be worth it.
Posted by Waldemar at March 31, 2008 07:30 AM