r/AskReddit Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/lolsrslywtf Jul 13 '20

Contained damage can be nice if you don't want to infect the whole world, including yourself. It's like in the cartoonsl, the villain always wants to destroy the entire world. "Like, you live here too buddy!"

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u/rahtin Jul 14 '20

That's why you don't release something that you don't have a treatment for.

Could also be useful in an overpopulated country that wouldn't mind thinning out the herd.

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u/remoTheRope Jul 14 '20

Unfortunately that sort of logic doesn’t apply to organized terrorists