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"If you were innocent, you would let us search your home."

There is a very fine line between destroying evidence, and refusing an investigation.

...and, don't get me wrong - I believe it's entirely possible that covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan Lab - but a refusal to be party to a politically charged investigation should not infer guilt.

Your rational is similar to assuming someone is guilty because they refuse to answer police questions.

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This is more like if the police come to search your house, and find that you've burned it down, or you've barricaded yourself inside with guns and hostages.

But, let's assume for the sake of argument that your analogy is the correct one. You know where they assume that if you don't let the police search your house, or if you don't answer police questions, you must be guilty? China.

So, we can just as easily judge the Chinese government by another heuristic: The Golden Rule

> You know where ...if you don't answer police questions, you must be guilty? China.

Are they our role-model now? Should we destroy our own principles in this case because that's what they would do?

You have the golden rule almost 100% backwards. It isn't "do unto others what you think they'd do unto you".

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