Reddit reviews Kingsford Easy Light Bag, 2.8 Pounds (Pack of 2)
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If "weapon of mass destruction" includes chemical or biological agents, then nearly 100% of the population can gain access to something one can classify as "a weapon of mass destruction" right now. Most of those things could "only" wipe out a small city. The Peshtigo fire killed hundreds of people. How many people have access to matches? If you think more than a match is needed, you can order up a home-arson kit on Amazon. If bio-weapons are more your style, there are open forums accessible to the BioCurious.
The reason it will be easier for someone to get their hands on these kinds of things in the future is because as we move up the Kardashev scale, people have access to more and more power. That's practically the definition of moving up the Kardashev scale. It's easy to think that technology that is designed to specifically kill people will be hard to get in the future, but what about dangerous things like cars? When everyone has a fusion plant in their house, how hard will it be to build a fusion bomb? And that's without considering things like bio-weapons and grey goo weapons. Some worry about grey goo happening by accident in the not to distant future. It isn't just likely that people in the future will have access to what we now call "weapons of mass destruction", it's inevitable. In other words, I don't just think there is some dangerous technology that will be as easy to acquire as sending an email, I think every technology developed will become that easy to acquire, eventually.
On the flip side, our ability to escape from or protect ourselves from bad stuff has also improved. Cars no longer kill more people than guns. Accidental bio-weapons (a.k.a. diseases) are at an all time low. Energy production causes less pollution per capita than ever, and continues to improve.
The question isn't, "will crazy people have access to seriously dangerous stuff?" the question is "will we be able to protect ourselves from the stuff crazy people will be able to get a hold of?" And eventually we have to ask "will we be able to protect ourselves from the stuff people do by accident?" Obviously people on this subreddit think we will (I'm pretty much in that camp too — I'm mostly playing devils advocate here) but I think you can't dismiss the possibility that as technology spirals into ever more powerful technology, we will be less and less able to escape from it. It's a race and I don't see a clear winner.