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by huggingmouth 843 days ago
This wouldn't be as silly a counter argument if there weren't already unrestricted models out there.

Unfortunately, this is a very silly argument. I'm so glad that people like you weren't around when they invented the personal computer.

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On the contrary, the argument that "someone will do it anyway, so you should just let it happen and take no moral responsibility because I WANT MY SHINY TOY" is… not merely silly, but incredibly absurd, selfish, entitled, and amoral.

One could argue that if $BIGCORP doesn't want their thing to be used by bad actors, they should just refrain from developing the technology at all, and while it's a somewhat defensible position, that would also result in techbros not getting their toy, so it doesn't really apply here.

The argument is that somebody already did it. Continuing this nonsense only harms legitimate users.