[hbs18]

I think it's the same thing as showing mechanical sympathy towards other tools and objects. I've always slightly judged people on how hard they shut doors or how gentle they are with their cars.

[recursive]

You car door doesn't charge you a subscription or sell mined data or give advice generated inside an opaque machine with opaque influences. If I believed that my car door was phoning home like this, I would cut the wire or tape over the sensor. The metaphor doesn't really work too well.

I treat musical instruments with respect. But I might not if they were harvesting my data and trying to sell me subscriptions.