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[Boerseun]

Science has absolutely nothing to say about morality or ethics.

Also, Science is already perfectly capable of killing the entire Earth as it is - consider the lowly atomic bomb, for instance. The distance between blowing up Hiroshima and destroying the entire planet is merely a matter of scale and cost.

Also, scientists know that building and detonating a bomb to destroy the planet will most likely have a negative impact on the flow of grant money.

I can take a ploughshare and till a field to feed hundreds - or, alternatively, I can drive that very same ploughshare through your skull. The reason that you came to a particularly nasty and relatively sticky end is clearly not the ploughshare's fault.

Also, scientists have no opinion of their own - or are not supposed to have, as it were. They are supposed to be completely unbiased, impartial, uninvolved and objective. That's the idea, at least. If there is anybody or anything that will destroy the planet, it will most likely be the politicians. And they will destroy the planet regardless of the technological level attained at the time - whether it be by sticks and stones or space-based killer death rays.