OKAY, THIS IS MAY BE A LITTLE UNINTUITIVE, BUT A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE IS ACTUALLY DRIVEN BY *DRUMROLL* WAR

PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR BETTER WAYS TO KILL EACH OTHER, WHETHER THROUGH BETTER WEAPONS OR MEANS TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE OVER ENEMIES. AND WHEN BETTER WEAPONS ARE DEVELOPED, WE NEED BETTER WAYS TO TREAT THE INJURED, OR PROVIDE DEFENSES AGAINST THESE NEW WEAPONS. AND OH NO, THESE NEW MEDICINES AND DEFENSE MEASURES HAVE RENDERED OUR COOL SHINY NEW WEAPONS USELESS, TIME FOR MORE INNOVATION

OF COURSE, THESE TOOLS HAVE APPLICATIONS OUTSIDE OF WAR. THEY ALWAYS DO. AND IN CASES LIKE WITH MEDICINE, THEIR BENEFITS OUTSIDE OF WAR FAR OUTWEIGH THE FEARS OF ALLOWING THEM. BUT CONSIDERING WE SEE A WOMAN TRAUMATIZED BY WHAT IS HEAVILY IMPLIED TO BE A GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR AND PEOPLE TURNING HER GODDAMN MOTHER AND FAMILY MEMBERS INTO ESSENTIALLY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF KILLING EACH OTHER BETTER, I THINK SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SEE EVERY LITTLE INVENTION AS HUMANS MAKING AN EXCUSE TO INVENT NEW AND COOL WAYS OF KILLING/WAGING WAR. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SEE THESE THINGS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME IRL THESE DAYS, LIKE HOW THOSE COOL 4-LEGGED ROBOTS THAT WERE CONSTANTLY SHARED ONLINE FOR YEARS ARE NOW GOING TO HAVE GUNS ATTACHED TO THEM AND SENT INTO COMBAT! FUN! HUMANS NEED TO STOP LEARNING HOW TO MORE EFFECTIVELY KILL EACH OTHER, LIKE HOLY SHIT

ALSO TANGENT BUT I'M SUPER PASSIONATE ABOUT MEDICAL HISTORY AND WANNA TALK ABOUT IT: THE STUDY OF HUMAN ANATOMY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TOUCHY SUBJECT, AND I MEAN ALWAYS, BECAUSE TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND HUMAN ANATOMY, YOU NEED TO CUT UP CADAVERS (I.E. AUTOPSY). THIS IS WHERE THE ISSUE COMES UP, SINCE TO MOST CULTURES, ESPECIALLY IN THE PAST, THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU COULD DO TO A PERSON, EVEN AFTER THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A HUMAN SOUL SEPARATE FROM THE BODY (AND BEFORE THAT CONCEPTUALIZATION? HOHOHO, GOOD LUCK THERE, BUDDY). ONE OF THE REASONS THE GREEKS WERE SUDDENLY COOL WITH AUTOPSY IN ALEXANDRIA WAS LITERALLY BECAUSE THEY SAW NATIVE EGYPTIANS AS LESSER BEINGS. HUMAN ANATOMICAL STUDY USING CORPSES BEING SO WIDELY ACCEPTED AND TOLERATED IS PRETTY MODERN IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS. NOT TO MENTION ANATOMY HAS LITTLE PRACTICAL MEDICAL PURPOSE UNLESS YOU'RE ABLE TO WORK DEEP INSIDE OF A LIVING PERSON WITHOUT THEM DYING FROM SHOCK/BLOOD LOSS/THE SUBSEQUENT INFECTION.