Guns are pretty unambiguously tools for killing. Arguably, not all killing is "bad" though. Nuclear bombs are pretty unambiguously tools for killing an awful l

Guns are pretty unambiguously tools for killing. Arguably, not all killing is "bad" though. Nuclear bombs are pretty unambiguously tools for killing an awful lot of people. Software is interesting because it is tools for making tools for making tools. If your software has a big green button as the input and a 3D printed nuclear bomb as the output, you may have created a bad tool. If it takes 2 steps to connect your software with one other piece of software to achieve the same result, you still might want to think about what you're doing. Three steps, four steps, five steps, and the ethical boundaries get just as difficult to resolve as most other human problems.