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Dynamite 🧨 was necessary for building the Panama Canal and Hoover Dam
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Oh, if you put that way, dynamite is probably the most dangerous discovery.
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Nah, fire was! Or language...
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That's true but I thought we were talking about how harmful inventions were, not what their net weighted impact after comparing positives and negatives were
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Thing is, if positives aren't included at all, the discovery of fire and invention of language are probably it: the most global harm ever came from them.
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That's a good point to go further back but I'd argue that the difference if that the harm from gunpowder is more direct and more tangible
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Without dynamite or similar explosives the mines that provided the minerals necessary for you to digitally write that comment probably would never have existed.