A taxidermist could argue that dead animals are better than living ones : they are indeed more convenient, less dangerous and cheaper to feed. But they aren't animal anymore, are they ?

Absolutely true. However, I'm not also not likely to find my stuffed cat slowed to a crawl and using all my electricity by mining Bitcoin because some 3rd party advertising network got compromised.

Any other daft analogies you want to use?

Your stuffed cat could not, but a living cat could bring you rabies if some third party in your neighborhood got infected, that's my point ;).

So your point is that we _should_ JavaScript?

Who knows! This comment thread is so wrapped up in its own analogy i just stuffed my cat full of JavaScript.

I think it's obvious that the point was no javascript... but a live cat is way more fun, so I'm not on board with that.

> However, I'm not also not likely to find my stuffed cat slowed to a crawl and using all my electricity by mining Bitcoin because some 3rd party advertising network got compromised.

You obviously need to upgrade your stuffed cat...

> If you took JSW off of most websites, it wouldn't be neutering the web it'd be making it better.

Neutering animals is seen as making them better pets, it's still neutering.

MathJax though.