I'd say the botnet operators are smart and knows how to make money, that's why they mine it.
I don't care who mines my Monero any more than I care who mines my gold and silver.
You don't understand. Monero's trades volumes are artificial because botnet, therefore scam. The hypothesis is accepted by Cheesus and Hexah agreed. That's proof enough for me.
So Cheesus thinks coins mined by botnets are like blood diamonds mined in war zones? Oh noez, Conflict Coins!1!!
I guess we need to have a whitelist of coins which were mined by the 'right' people and certified kosher by the high priests of the temple, right Cheesus? Who needs the low friction produced by fungibility anyway?