It&#x27;s not necessarily wrong to do any of that.<p>It had a profoundly bad outcome for me, but maybe that&#x27;s a one-off.  It&#x27;s arguable whether it had a bad outcome for my physicist friend.  After all, she is a successful physicist.<p>This was intended to highlight some things that may not be immediately obvious.  Life is counterintuitive.<p>It is very easy to do terrible things by accident.  Morals are subjective.  Is it morally wrong to declaw a cat?  Some are horrified and compare it to clipping off a finger.  Others think it&#x27;s good for the cat and perfectly normal.<p>If I sat here and said &quot;What you&#x27;re doing is wrong; stop this,&quot; what good would it do?  Absolutely nothing.<p>Sharing data is a little different.  No one has perfect information.  They have to choose to do <i>something</i>, and I respect that.  Highlighting unintended consequences of a decision isn&#x27;t quite the same as judging it.