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> People can and do misuse things all the bloody time and the more you enable them to do that, the worse your tool is.

In terms of avoiding accidents I agree, but in general, I don't like this kind of thinking.

One man's misuse is another man's hack. The flipside here is that the more you limit and subdivide a tool, the worse your tool becomes.

I'd also rather see builder using something else than a jackhammer to nail stuff, but then I also want him to have access to one if he needs it, and I strongly want people to stop shouting "omg you can't use X to do Y, because X was not meant to do Y". First principle of hacking: tools do not have inherent purpose, they can be used to do whatever we want; they only can be better or worse at a particular task. The world didn't collapse into logical contradiction the last time I cut pizza with a sound card, because of lack of any other sharp tool nearby.



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