Or they live in a society that offers them few routes to decent quality healthcare and didn't have much in the way of options, and maybe were too propagandized to know better.
Fair. In their defense they can still be generated cheaply locally by open source programs like stable diffusion, there's just a slight quality downgrade. I'm given to understand that the real environmental damage is in the training, but open source initiatives greatly reduce that (done once, free for all).
The amount of denial that props this mentality up also props up a huge worldview full of predicates and presuppositions. It's like cracking through the Kariba Dam, the resulting flood has a cascade effect, but since this dam neither can't hold nor should be maintained indefinitely it's better to break it earlier rather than later to clear away the wreckage.
Fair