Wow. When I first saw this headline, I clicked through expecting satire. Nobody could write that headline seriously, right? How wrong I was.

They are weaponizing empathy. The title says it all. Living a decent life and minding your own business is now going to kill someone. If you do not support the borg, people die "because of you!!"

I mourn for our species. So many incapable of living life simply, without this doom narrative of "I have to be saving the world with my every (in)action! If I don't, I'm evil!"

This is what the loss of God has given us. Absent a way to conceive of a force beyond our control which manages - and has always managed - natural processes such as plagues, daily bodily functions (insanely complex), climate, etc, etc, humans are now convinced these are all our job to control. No wonder mental illness is going through the roof. We are being told we are responsible for a job which is totally and absolutely beyond our intelligence to comprehend, not to mention control. This is equally true of "scientists" as it is of anyone else.

We aren't remotely powerful or knowledgeable enough to try to pull off what we are being told it is now our duty to do.

To those who believe an article like this, I say Please stop "control freaking". It's killing you, and you're gong to take the rest of us with you.