Okay, and I prefer being waterboarded over being drawn & quartered. But it doesn't mean I support the practice of waterboarding, since there's another option, namely just not waterboarding in the first place.
This contrarianism is so strange to me. Data not being deleted by a bad actor is preferable to having it deleted, and I would think that would be the main takeaway here, rather than this weird descent into counterfactuals. Where does the impulse come from to bypass the normal answer, treat it like a trick question and go into contrarian mode by measuring it against counterfactuals? I think when you do that you lose sight of the most important thing here, which is the fact that data is being wantonly deleted and that it is bad that this is happening.
Okay, and I prefer being waterboarded over being drawn & quartered. But it doesn't mean I support the practice of waterboarding, since there's another option, namely just not waterboarding in the first place.
This contrarianism is so strange to me. Data not being deleted by a bad actor is preferable to having it deleted, and I would think that would be the main takeaway here, rather than this weird descent into counterfactuals. Where does the impulse come from to bypass the normal answer, treat it like a trick question and go into contrarian mode by measuring it against counterfactuals? I think when you do that you lose sight of the most important thing here, which is the fact that data is being wantonly deleted and that it is bad that this is happening.