[eternalban]

> Everything has an orientation to it

This seems true at face value. Consider the cutting edge technology aka as a knife, with an inherent bias for cutting things.

Dinner time. Killing time. ("Food is murder"?)

It is the context of utility of technology that is the determining factor. A technology, imo, can be deemed directly culpable of ill effects IFF it permits no other utility context other than that which results in morally or ethically unaceptable outcomes.

Ever nuclear weapons can be used for good, you know. (Extinguish fires, for example.)

[zaphar]

I don't think that's a particularly useful restriction. I think a restriction that factors in the overall utility vs hard of something.

You can pretty much always find a non harmful use for anything so requiring no non harmful users is effectively useless as a criteria.