If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics, make up wild thought 'experiments', that is another thing. I am not so interested in the latter, though I do appreciate that it can be fun, however unproductive.
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free. ' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.