Fire is as life giving as water, and water brings death just as easily as fire. the same is true for all the elements, you can defend the life giving aspects of any of them, eskimo's w/o ice and fire would be extinct ...
our food w/o fire would have a larger rate of killing us do to being uncooked.
No lightning having been harnessed? No electricity no modern tech age for us to have this argument via.
Let's let these kind of arguments go.