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As someone who experimented pretty freely with science at home as a teenager, I'm perturbed by the over-reacting and jumping to conclusions associated with "science-based hacking" shown here. Just because you do things that has the potential to do damage doesn't mean that you have the intent to or that you will. Pretty much anything can do damage if you want it to; just because I have a baseball bat doesn't mean that I will hit someone with it. There are things that really kill people in our society, chiefly cars and guns. Having those are mostly legal, but doing experiments on your stove: dangerous, must be stopped. Some attention to proportion is called for.


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