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nobodyandproud · 2024-03-24T23:15:37 1711322137

Very poor example.

Technical brilliance didn't protect Alan Turing from a badly-written sex law pushed out in 1885, but technical brilliance wasn't the cause of his mistreatment.

Whereas it was technical brilliance that made a young, 8-year-old 210 iq child the target of exploitation by NASA in an era where child-exploitation was already frowned upon for decades.

And of course, in the height of irony one of the aims of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_Amendment_Act_188... was to protect the very young; so a very poor example indeed.