An intentional lab leak makes no sense to me at all. Its like starting a fire in your house to spite your neighbour.
But isn’t this precisely the strawman argument that’s effectively destroyed rational discussion about the lab-leak scenario?
As far as I know, absolutely no rational scientist has suggested the intentional ‘bio-weapon’ release of the virus on China’s own population as a realistic scenario, in any way.
But I’ve found whenever discussing an accidental leak with people who oppose it, they almost invariably use this as their main argument rejecting it: “why would the Chinese use this weapon against themselves?”
It seems just another example of the debate being clouded by a politicization that isn’t even there.