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My position is that inflicting horrible outcomes on a small percentage of the population is not justifiable.

If you don't understand your software well enough to prevent and/or fix such outcomes, you are in moral default by making it available to people.

I find it analogous to selling people hard drugs.

Some users will be fine.

That does nothing for the ones it utterly destroys.



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