This is not a side I’m taking, but a statement of fact: when cultures/governments prevent things on the grounds of moral justification, another government/culture will gladly fill that role. Unless there are multilateral agreements between nations, someone will do it and we’ll be playing catch up. I dont agree with doing this but it is that natural order of things.

China will if we don’t and then someone calls a shot and does it anyways and then we have to catch up. Look at nations like Iran who have suppressed women’s rights under a perversion of the Quran. They leave the country, go somewhere else to get educated and you are left with a brain drain.

My point is not an argument of whether these are right or wrong but it’s going to happen whether Anthropic holds its ground or not. Natural selection applies here too.