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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
There are also the ethical questions of being able to save so many people and holding it back - it seems unlikely to me that the kind of people the Project needs would be okay joining a group that will let so many die or suffer.
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If that is true The Project can not exist at all. The canon project has clean nuclear fusion. That could save millions of lives across the world simply by running water treatment plants, let alone prevent death in coal mining or from pollution caused by coal fired plants. How many millions would the universal antibody save? The Universal antidote? Could not the Project's advanced lasers be used as missile shields?
The Project is able to utterly convince its volunteers that the war is absolutely going to happen. Curing Uncle Ned's diabetes only to have him die of radiation sickness a few years later isn't a good bargain. Volunteers accept that the Project doesn't release this technology widely because doing so will simply compromise the ability of the Project to rebuild civilization after the inevitable war.