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Scientists indeed mostly do science because they like it, but it's supposed to be that way and it's supposed to be funding managers that are responsible to direct that towards the welfare of humanity. That they don't is a matter of ideology. Kaczinsky made a mistake in attribution of responsibility, scientists aren't supposed to bear that responsibility in our system.


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