The efficacity of an engineering solution has never been determined by popular vote. Either the system works, or it does not. When the system does not work, or is ineffective, then the shortcomings are determined and overcome.
Prohibiting any course of action altogether, especially on flimsy arguments against it, is denial of the ingenuity of the human mind. All the Luddites that railed against the introduction of weaving machinery for cloth, were proved to be obstacles in the growth of prosperity through industrial development. Ned Ludd, a 18th century Leicestershire workman who destroyed a knitting frame, was the spiritual leader of a widespread movement among the guilds of manual workers, who wrongly though their livelihoods were being destroyed by the new technology.