Comment by coldpie

> The poster clearly is aware of the drawbacks of such patents, and didn't clearly play any role in filing the patent (they said "we … filed it," not "I filed it").

A person with the same name as that commenter is listed as an inventor on the patent.

> it can't possibly change their past behavior

Obviously, but it can change future behavior. Maybe realizing that they made the world a worse place by filing that patent will prevent them, or a reader of this discussion, from doing it again in future.