professor in physics or chemistry, and your most promising student comes to you with a discovery. She’s found a new molecular property in chocolate. She’s brilliant and naive, but you realize that her discovery could eventually be used to arm the most destructive bomb humankind has ever known. If she’s allowed to publish her findings, sooner or later billions will die as a result. You caution her, but there’s no guarantee she won’t someday share her discovery. Should you kill her? And because you know, also, and might someday suffer dementia and let slip the deadly secret, should you kill
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