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Eh, I guess it really depends on how you define "inherently bad." For example, I'd also call "shooting people" inherently bad, but there are certainly cases where a specific shooting is a net good (self defense, etc). It sounds like your definition is different and may require any possible instance to be bad.



By your own argument and definition, advertising is inherently bad: Advertising being good is a edge case that requires specific circumstances.


I'm pretty sure that is the point GP was trying to make


We could spend all day spinning our wheels on increasingly pedantic hypotheticals but it's not exactly productive discussion.

Non-consensual acts of violence are always inherently bad even when they are "provoked" by reprehensible acts (three rights make a left and all that).

"shooting people" with X-Rays to image their internal structures for medical purposes is generally accepted to be good.


Yes, and I'd say the same thing about advertising, though obviously on a lesser scale. All advertising is bad. Some advertising is merely less bad.

Advertising that appears in Apps or Software I paid for is hot garbage 100% of the time.




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