The problem is that in programming, if you build a halfway decent butter-knife, the NSA will use it to pry open your window and eavesdrop on you with it, the CI

The problem is that in programming, if you build a halfway decent butter-knife, the NSA will use it to pry open your window and eavesdrop on you with it, the CIA will torture people with it, and various dictatorships will stab dissidents in the eyes with it. It's not like bad actors only use Obviously Evil Software. They use many of the same tools we use for similar tasks. The more general software is, the more bad actors are using it, too. Now, sure, if you're working on Disposition Matrix 2.0 assassinating selection system, or a botnet framework, the moral and ethical fallout is obvious. Short of that, things quickly get a lot murkier, and at some point, the creators of, say, gcc just aren't to blame for every harmful thing compiled with it. At some point, it's simply not a falsehood.