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Jurassic Park. The bad shit is always either caused by profiteering or just clear cost-cutting, and the desire to make more money just always lets everything go to shit.
And yet the movie(s) tries to cut the entire message down to "People shouldn't play God" again and again. As if the research itself was the problem. The series also works hard to rehabilitate the greedy fuck billionaire that caused the shit to go down in the first place iirc.
I'm working on a few years old knowlege here though, I might be a bit off.
The author of the book was very religious and the intended message was supposed to be about the god thing. He tried to imagine a somewhat realistic way that the problems he saw with where science was heading would surface, and of course just ended up imagining a problem caused by capitalism, because almost every problem is caused by capitalism.
I remember thinking forever that that message and warning was overblown and then when my sister started doing bio work in her 2nd year undergrad that included gene manipulation of bacteria and fruit flies (like down to editing stuff with a computer to inject later) I definitely felt a brief pang of "my god weve gone too far."
There's that one webcomic where some cavemen make fire, but then the fire spreads too much, and then they're like "we were clearly not meant to make fire, we should not play god".