I've struggled to come to a good analogy for why I feel this way. The closest I've come is to imagine a steel foundry that has developed a new alloy that is amazing. The foundry, being run by pro-social people, spend much of their effort on trying to modify the alloy so that it can only be used for good.

But that is never going to work, because they are operating on the wrong level of abstraction. Even worse, by focusing on an untenable abstract, they miss the lower-hanging fruit of more effective methods of control.