Should Amarr share its findings from the Drifter wormhole with the rest of the universe?
The Servant Sisters of Eve and the Arataka Research Council discussed this during a conference in Jita, polling many capsuleers. They claim that yes, the factions occupying the Drifter wormholes should share their findings with all, because Science thrives best through collaboration. Science is a joint human endeavour to understand creation and obtain true knowledge for all.
Sed contra, scripture in the Code of Demeanor teaches us that "Pure Thought is the Instigator of Sin".
I answer that putting knowledge for the sake of knowledge first, without moral considerations, is a grave error (one that I have committed in the past, confessed to and did penance for). In the present case, intellectual collaborations with those that seek to destroy humanity, such as the Triglavians, or those that only look for their own profit and power, such as the pirate factions, will definitely not lead to a betterment of all humanity. They will either give humanity's enemies weapons to destroy us, or be kept by the pirate factions for their self-interest.
Nevertheless, it can not be denied that collaborations do accelerate research, and pooling of findings allow to complete the picture faster. So, my own preference would be that the four remaining Concord signatories, the core Empires, work together as they did in the past to cope with the Sansha and Triglavian threats. Together, they control four of the five Drifter wormholes (EDENCOM being already a collaboration between the Empires), and this should give them an edge.
So, the refutation of the argument given by ARC and the Sisters is that sharing knowledge with any of those non-Empire factions will not help humanity. The Triglavians are not to be trusted, let them battle their mortal enemy in the Redoubt. They can hardly be called human! As for the Society of Conscious Thought, my feeling is that they no longer represent the Jove -the fifth Concord signatory- but merely their own interests, and in that respect they are not much different from other pirate factions. The Sisters? Just like the Society of Conscious Thought, they keep their research to themselves, so they should not expect us to do differently.
