Musk's Neuralink people appear to have done a bad thing, but do think their research and technology is important. Arguably just punishing those responsible with fines and training can be enough, and let the research proceed. We are talking about helping large numbers of people with disabilities, in hopefully the not to distant future.
The same reason it’s ok to eat pigs but not dogs. Humans place animals into fictional categories which dictate the acceptable level of abuse that is allowed to be inflicted upon the animal.
