If people are wildly optimistic and non-critical about deploying something that is destructive, that should never be framed as a positive.

And continuing on this, if I am being critical of optimism in this scenario, that’s not ”slowing progress” or ”being backwards”. That’s being cognizant of bad outcomes and resisting them.

This all reminds me of when people are understandably confused by ”negative” results in healthcare, when they can be the most welcome of news.