The incentives are different. Bioweapons are mainly destructive and not useful for achieving any aims that are sane (they don't secure energy, they don't increase local prosperity, they don't win land wars, they don't target political opponents, etc). Anyone who defects from banning them gains a target on their back and that is it. I can't think of a use for bioweapons.
Contrast to AI. Literally anyone who gets involved, from a teen upwards gains magical new powers across a range of arts and sciences as well as gaining new insights into any questions they have. There is a vague promise of utopia where it no longer makes sense for humans to work (probably won't work out that way, but whatever). Defectors gain massive advantages and can also maintain plausible deniability.
I can't speak for parent, but there is a point at which I just stop caring. Either thinga will get bad enough and people will revolt like they tend to do when its too late or they won't. Nihilism is one hell of a drug.
Separately, on a personal level, I find social justice annoying.
But then I have coffee and play with my kid and no longer wish to destroy the world.
Contrast to AI. Literally anyone who gets involved, from a teen upwards gains magical new powers across a range of arts and sciences as well as gaining new insights into any questions they have. There is a vague promise of utopia where it no longer makes sense for humans to work (probably won't work out that way, but whatever). Defectors gain massive advantages and can also maintain plausible deniability.