To me, about 98 percent of inventors are crucially important to mankind's survival and development.
Inventions are undeniably great, both big and small contributions made by inventors that have a direct impact on almost every being on earth, some even having an impact on humanity for eternity.
It is widely believed that every invention starts with a spark, a promise to heal and help. Yet, history has proven unfailingly that in this life, all that is needed is time to reveal the negative aspects of something good.
For everything good, there is always a bad part, a downside.
Fire can light up the room and bring warmth, but it can consume life so fast and send everything up in smoke.
Water is life, but it is powerful enough to take countless lives.
At first glance, it is quite easy to blame inventors for the damages caused by their inventions. But I bet a second glance would make one see it is foolish to blame inventors who had good intentions right from the onset.
If there was anybody who would understand what I am talking about I believe Christians would understand easily. Blaming an inventor who had no ulterior bad motives is just like blaming God for creating Satan.
I always say that in everything we do the thing that matters the most is intent. Trying to hold inventors accountable for the misuse of their inventions is like assuming they know all and can predict all human behavior, which is very much impossible. Alfred Nobel never imagined dynamites would be synonymous with war rather than the safer mining method he envisioned.
The Internet was invented for the purpose of sharing knowledge and not misinformation and crimes.
Of course, you might say some of them actually suspected and knew like every other thing there is a downside to their inventions. But what still matters most is their intent when they made a decision to take the risk.
But let's consider someone like Sir Frederick Banting & Charles Best. In the year 1921, they invented the insulin medication as a treatment for diabetes mellitus which was a death sentence back then and is still as dangerous now.
Banting sold the insulin patent for $1, believing it belonged to humanity.
But of course, we have greedy humans who decided to abuse a life-saving treatment and inflate the price for profit.
This is something they probably ruled out as a con before releasing the treatment.
But let me tell you one thing they probably never imagined their life-saving treatment would be used for—murder.
Yes, I bet they never imagined that someone would come up with a way to administer the life-saving treatment they invented in regular little doses to someone who didn't need it. And it would work like a slow deadly poison. The “life-saving treatment" as a weapon of death—the irony.
So you see we can't really blame them for having good intent and wanting to make a change for the betterment of humanity. The only people we can blame are the wicked ones who decided to take advantage of the inventor's good hard work for evil.
