If we did that, we'd still be riding horses. Mistakes are inherent to progress; we aren't going to ban progress because we don't know, you acquire knowledge by doing and making mistakes.
I agree with you, and I want to see us continue to make progress, though I don't think we need to be injecting nitrogen into clouds so people can have better skiing.
Says you, those wanting to ski have a different opinion, who are you to prevent other people from deciding what they consider progress? You sound like a Luddite from old England railing against technology.
> That's an interesting thing to say, as I'm a Software Engineer, and one of the most "techie" people I know.
And yet your default opinion is don't touch things we don't understand, which prevents us from ever understanding them; you must see how illogical that is.