The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Potential has a shelf life.
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.