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Yea, that this thread is getting WAY to adversarial for my taste, dangerously so. At least we can agree on that.
Anyway, you did admit that sometimes, rarely, a really good writer can have permanent profound emotional reactions, and I suspect most of the disagreement here actually resides in the lethality of emotional reactions, and my taste for wording things to sound dramatic as long as they are still true.
Well, I should point out that if you sincerely believe your knowledge could kill someone if it got out, you likely won't test this belief directly. You may miss all sorts of lesser opportunities for updating. We don't have to think you're Stupid or you Fail As A Rationalist in order to think you got this one wrong.
It's sort of the same situation as posting any other kind of information on how to construct weapons that may or may not work on public forums. It's not all that likely to actually give someone access to a weapon that deadly, but it's bad form just for the possibility, and because they may still hurt themselves or others in the failed attempt.
I were also trying to scare people away from the whole thing, but after further consideration it probably wasn't very effective anyway.