Fair point, definitely. Maybe I should say it's wise to soberly consider all the uses of something, even when its initial use case is something we happen to like. A really decent sci fi novel that does some stuff around this question is "The Trigger" by Arthur C. Clarke:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117844.The_Trigger
if anyone wants a good read on the subject. Risking a spoiler: it deals with the importance of the question from a couple of pretty compelling directions, by the end.