Regressives want the personal freedom to harass hurt and kill who they want. That's what they're talking about. They feel the walls finally around them saying they can't. So they lash out, at anything.
The example of the mobile phone is pretty wrong. The first mobile cost about $4000 and the cheapest today still costs around $25. The original cars cost 30k adjusted for inflation with the cheapest today costing around 15.
Once again. It's always held true. Outside factors could make it take longer but ultimately you said never. Which basically makes your original statement near impossible.
Harm reduction is fine, but faced with a view going that way, why not use ranked choice. First choice might be I've cream, but if you can't do that, perhaps going somewhere else works.
We've been able to do this for years. The difficult part has been making it cheap, reliable and non-invasive. Electrodes in the brain degrade neural tissue and... There's good reason this isn't done on the regular.
And we see how well they went...