1) that there is an unpoisoned well to begin with
2) that the chemicals are poison or can only be used for poison
3) that increased access to chemicals will result in more poisoned wells
4) that the people who invented the chemicals are benevolent stewards and will not just use them to further their own interests
5) that it is better for aforementioned benevolent stewards to hoard the chemicals than permit access to those who would concoct poisons, antidotes, and preventative measures, not to mention industry innovations that aren’t related to poison at all
6) that the interests of the people on the ethics committees are aligned with the interests of humanity
7) that ethics committees employed by a chemical manufacturing firms is the only thing standing between ethical and responsible management of chemicals and complete chaos and environmental destruction
8) that the fired ethicists were good at their jobs in the first place