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by constantcrying 1299 days ago
And?

A chainsaw can be used for marvelous things, the wood for your house or your furniture. It can be used to help people in need, removing objects trapping them. Even to put out fires in roofs. There are thousands of great uses for chainsaws. Yet using it against a human will lead to a catastrophe. It is a mistake you do not want to make once. Making it twice should ve unthinkable.

Just because a tool is effective in situation A does not mean it is effective in situation B. We tried your idea and it resulted in a human catastrophe.

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Is this what the kids these days are calling “motte-and-bailey”?
No, it is using the awesome powers of science, rationality, mathematics and logic, to deduce that an idea which already has led to disaster, has a very significant risk to lead to disaster again.