We might want to treat two things differently when for one of them, its only function is unimaginably massive destruction and for the other it’s to produce words and images.
Treating them differently based on the harm they cause, is still judging them based on the harm they cause rather than treating them as a neutral entity.
I don’t think it makes any sense to ignore the immediate consequences of using/abusing a tool when trying to determine the nature of any regulations or other curbs around that tool.
