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That's like saying "If I could build a house reliably then I would not need to protect myself from the weather." Reliably including the probability of error in your multiplication constitutes following ethical injunctions to protect you from yourself. Ethics does not stop being ethics just because you found out that it can be described mathematically.
I do not agree. We are using the phrase ethical injunction to describe a different concept.