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Ethical Question
Mister Mxyzptlk:
--- Quote from: neurovore on April 08, 2008, 05:42:00 PM ---Well, yes, but isn't making soap one of those things most people do in the chemistry part of high-school science classes anyway ?
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Play with sodium lye? In a classroom? In the 21st century? Egad, dont you know that's dangerous?
Naw, these days chem class is all about being danger free.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on April 08, 2008, 05:11:48 PM ---"That said, I can entirely sympathise with deliberately making the recipes for explosives in Fight Club (the movie) wrong so that nobody playing with them would blow anyone up."
The soap recipie works, though.
*looks innocent*
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And thus the new found knowledge that Mickey's been out trying all the recipes? :-)
As to safety in Chem Labs---don't they all still have the little gas spigots? I mean who hasn't thought about moving the bunsen burner a little to the left.... Nah, my self preservation instincts always stopped me in time.
Edited: as usual I got busy reading the replies and forgot the reason to post. I'm not into writing terrorist books etc, but I do have one killer idea that someone should write about. It's up for grabs....
Someone poisons the glue you lick on the back of stamps. Do it fast, As a matter of fact, do they even make stamps that way anymore???? Probably because someone else thought it an unwise practice..
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on April 08, 2008, 09:17:40 PM ---Edited: as usual I got busy reading the replies and forgot the reason to post. I'm not into writing terrorist books etc, but I do have one killer idea that someone should write about. It's up for grabs....
Someone poisons the glue you lick on the back of stamps. Do it fast, As a matter of fact, do they even make stamps that way anymore???? Probably because someone else thought it an unwise practice..
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I haven't seen any USPS lickable stamps for quite a while. In The Name Of The Rose, the murderer put poison on the upper right corner of book pages, so when the reader absent mindedly licked a fingertip to turn the pages, they'd eventually get a fatal dose.
trboturtle:
If you know where to look, you can find "how to" books on nearly everything -- including how to commit crimes. So, those people looking for ideas does not need to look to novels to inspire them.......
Craig
Benchleyfan:
I would be weirded out if my plot became a reality, but wouldn't feel responsible. Or I hope I wouldn't. The guilt would be on the person who did the actual deed. Some much stuff gets blamed on any media (including the news) that defense lawyers seem to have an easier time of it. I hope this made sense and was of some help.
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