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The thousands of choices that go into a tech product define what can be done with it, who has access to it, what incentives it creates, etc. If it has an impact, then this impact has a moral direction. If it's "neutral", it probably doesn't actually do anything.
Whenever I hear "it's just a tool", I know that person has never thought about what it *means* to have an impact on the world...
So, is C good or evil? What about Postgres?
C: chaotic neutral Rust: lawful neutral JavaScript: chaotic good Scala: lawful good Java: lawful evil Matlab: chaotic evil Clojure: true neutral Python: neutral good Postgres: lawful good Oracle: lawful evil MySQL: lawful neutral MongoDB: chaotic neutral SQLite: true neutral HTH
It's an Anglophone meme. In French, there's a proverb "good tools make good workers".
Apply that thinking to genomic sequencing
Most “tech” isn’t really tech. It’s packaged features. Products. Design. Intentional, purposeful. It is the opposite of neutral.
See also, Kranzberg's First Law: "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." https://www.jstor.org/stable/3105385
It is just a tool but it doesn't mean it's a universal and unbiased one. Like, if you see a hamner, you know something's gonna be hit hard.
A "tool" implies utility, which implies a user with objectives, so there is an irreducible political dimension. If technology is "just a tool" that makes it internally inconsistent to say the tool is neutral. I can imagine a proof of this in the form of a Socratic dialog.
I think the usual notion here is that good outweighs the bad. Humanity as it is can not cease weapon production and development, same with any (tech) product. Delegating the control is the dangerous part, not development per se.
BAIT. 
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