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There's a lesson to be learned about making tools that need to be used with subtlety and making them more approachable than a fisher price hammer, and then getting shocked that people use them inappropriately.
I'm sure *this time* humanity will learn it's lesson.
Literally computers
Literally everything! From nuclear energy to fire. The fiftieth time the caveman that invented fire used it, he said "eh, what's the worst thing that could happen if I don't do all the same stuff I did last time to keep me safe" and his whole fucking village burnt down.