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Comment author: James_Miller 10 May 2016 08:32:21PM 3 points [-]

Consider terrorists who release viruses that target or spare specific populations. If gene editing technologies make offence much easier than defense, and allows lone individuals to make these viruses such terrorism could be world-ending.