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Who's talking about prohibition?
When you question why someone is entitled to a profit when there is no moat, it sounds like an ethical judgment to me. You're right that there's no moat to set up a node, but I suspect running a profitable one requires a good deal of capital and commitment.
When one crosses the street without looking, they should expect to be hit by a car
That statement isn't morally supportive of hitting people with cars
Perpetuating the misconception that routing is a profitable activity is only going to cost noobs who attempt it their sats, leading more angry Lightning FUD posts by the blind who followed the blind
For the noobs: Unless you are running a service that attracts its own flows and routes as a side-effect, you will lose money trying to be a router. As an edge node, you should have only a couple-few, ideally private, channels.
I can't disagree with any of this. Good advice.
I'm not really sure we're disagreeing with each other. I don't even run a routing node. My node is not profitable, and I don't care. In essence, the point of my post is that nodes may become profitable over time whether that was the operator's intention or not.
Also, I'm not saying it's easy, but I don't think there should be any moral or ethical prohibition against striving to run a profitable node.