The mass-extinction causing orphan-crushing torment nexus (MECOCToN) is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

There are other questions around MECOCToN (like if we should be complicit in killing billions of people, and making more than 50% of genera go extinct, via its CO2e releases and water use), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions.

The Debian project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the people who use it is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

In the Debian community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of ethical reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of causing a mass extinction.

/s