But the argument wouldn't be nearly as strong.

Hard to say when nobody is actually offering arguments

It would be difficult to have spent any time at all on this website in the past two years without hearing the arguments for why slop farms undermine trust online, poison future training data sets, worsen the signal to noise ratio and eat up untold resources.

withe the addition of asking to consider that being harmful to the web is the ethical thing, that is what the argument of op was

how so?