On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
Much likely nothing bad would happen by handing out a list, but to avoid a "Now, why didn't I think of that?"-issue the easiest solution seems to reject such requests in general, at least as long as it's not obviously that the research is "good" (what ever this means) for the Arch community and/or human kind or the universe in general.
So you're admitting that you can't come up with a real concern and are opposing just for the sake of opposing. I think it's important to discuss such issues a lot in general, because they improve our reasoning. But just to take away the outcome of your well-meaning pessimism: There could be a white hair in that soup just as there could indeed be a black hair in the opposite colored "Now, why didn't I think of that?" soup of well-meaning optimism you warn against. If you can follow this rahter heavily metaphoric dish of thought, it looks like we learned something today, in that case. cheers! mar77i