>>More a lesson that even things intended to be good can have weird unintended consequences in a chaotic world.
No that lesson here is that when you look at human history, human will always battle each other, and it is unfair to say Li-Ion batteries "invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars " as war is inevitable.
By that argument, killing is fine because death is inevitable. What I meant was that we live in a world were something that seems so innocuous selecting materials in a laboratory to achieve a set goal can be amplified decades down the road in wild ways that few can predict. I wasn't saying "Goodenough you careless bastard!", just that his invention was a great example of how small things can turn into major issues. While it didn't cause it, the use of cobalt turned into an amplifier of the Congo war (the same could be said of gold and diamonds).
A good example could be like with LLM's. A brilliant technology that could amplify other issues in weird ways, it is only decades later that we will see what has come of it.
No that lesson here is that when you look at human history, human will always battle each other, and it is unfair to say Li-Ion batteries "invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars " as war is inevitable.