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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoThat’s like saying “asbestos has some good uses, so we should just give every household a big pile of it without any training or PPE”
It doesn’t matter that it has some good uses and that later we went “oops, maybe let’s only give it to experts to use”. The harm has already been done by eager supporters, intentional or not.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No that is completely not what they are saying. Stop arguing strawmen.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s not a strawman, it’s hyperbole.
There are serious known harms and we suspect that there are more.
There are known ethical issues, and there may be more.
There are few known benefits, but we suspect that there are more.
Do we just knowingly subject untrained people to harm just to see if there are a few more positive usecases, and to make shareholders a bit more money?
How does their argument differ from that?