"Setting aside the moral arguments---"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water---"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

@jameshowell Whether it works or not is besides the point.

The usefulness of a product or service does not in itself justify its use. Usefulness is simply a necessary condition for use: if it was useless, you would not use it. Useful means it is possible to use it. It does not mean the use is justified or even justifiable, ethically or otherwise. There are many products that were considered useful but have nevertheless been banned, as their use turned out to be unjustifiable.

@wim_v12e @jameshowell Asbestos, lead and mercury are also very useful