Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

[Anomalocaris]

Some of you may recognize this title from the signature of Kingphil. I think it's an interesting concept with the potential to generate interesting thoughts and discussion.

For starters, there is precious little created by humans that somebody, somewhere has not figured out a way to abuse. So if we judge a philosophy by its abuse we might as well throw everything out the window.   How then do we judge the value of anything?

Perhaps you should judge a philosophy by its recognition of the potential for its own "abuse", and what provision it has made in its own formulation to effectively mitigate the impact of those abuses.