yes please. you are not responsible for any "Evil" users of the software might do. This is not even about enabling bad stuff, this is just natural progression of technology.
Nuclear and biological weapons are also part of the "natural progression of technology" but it's widely agreed that they shouldn't be released to anybody and everybody, and the people distributing those technologies have a moral responsibility.
If you think your software would be of more use to "evil" than not, then don't release it widely.
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yes please. you are not responsible for any "Evil" users of the software might do. This is not even about enabling bad stuff, this is just natural progression of technology.
Nuclear and biological weapons are also part of the "natural progression of technology" but it's widely agreed that they shouldn't be released to anybody and everybody, and the people distributing those technologies have a moral responsibility.
If you think your software would be of more use to "evil" than not, then don't release it widely.
Yeah, it is everyone's moral responsibility to consider effects of our actions as far as we're able to.