I’ll admit I did not expect to be horrified by the answers to this, I thought I was above that, I was wrong
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What are the worst things in the world that have technically saved a life at one point or another?
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Fitz Haber did his entire thing to poison-gas the enemies of his nation in painful deaths, left his pacifist wife after arguing and didn't go to her burial after her suicide (their child left alone too) and his reaction literally saved billions of lives from death by starvation
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Like, the Norman Bourlaug green revolution last I read saved less lives, and that dude was intentionally on it to save lives. My go to example for scientists as powerless cogs in the machine and society being the one that decides how all that is used
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this got rtd so i'll drop one i found recently in 1972 a thoroughly deranged soviet doctor ran trials of starvation and confinement for two months as a treatment for patients with severe psychosis, which proved successful and has been replicated a few times since
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There have definitely been people who escaped being shot because a cop was busy raping someone instead
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Drunk driving has probably saved a lot of doctor’s patients and also drunk driving accidents have probably saved a lot of potentially beaten wives
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