This argument comes up a lot, similar to the "humans lie, too" line of reasoning

The difference in your cited case is that employees are a class of legal person which is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which they work, along with any legal contracts they signed as a condition of their employment. So, that's a shitload of words to say "there are consequences" which isn't true of a bunch of matrix multiplications that happen to speak English and know how to invoke RPCs