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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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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AIDS has probably killed a lot of murderers
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the black plague saved a lot of the survivors from starvation because they didn't have to compete for food with the people that died
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better candidates for worst than this one already been mentioned but there's also Luttwak's thesis that at best int'l peacekeeping can only keep a lid on conflict, not really resolve it, so ultimately more lives are saved if a war is allowed to run its course and end decisively
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