Both perhaps, I won't try to pretend I know what the Indian legislature is thinking, but the collective harm it might be doing was not the question the root comment had asked - it framed that computation in-itself needed a moral justification to be deemed illegal, which is much more broad than the narrow task of mining bitcoin and would include math operations on computers that are currently illegal, such as distributing child pornography.

The commentator then called a critique of that lens a "strawman", despite CP and many other computations (see other comments in the thread) already being illegal.