Just a completely hypothetical thought experiment here, but what if you could predict earthquakes, but only with like 30% accuracy, and only within hours of it happening, would you even want to warn people? The mass panic, fleeing, crime, and looting that could occur might not be worth it with only 30% accuracy. Yet if it ever became public that you could have warned people but didn't, and something did happen, it would not look good on the government for not issuing a warning.
Scientific advancement may one day make predictions possible to some degree, so maybe one day it will need to be talked about.
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