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I've heard the safety argument for cutting leads before disposing of items, but I think it causes more harm than good.
Someone finds an item with a cut lead and wants to try it. Whether they don't know any better or they do it as a quick temporary measure "just to test it" they twist the wires together and tape them up. If the item now works the temporary patch job is left in place until it fails, potentially catastrophically. I've seen variations of this many times.
Also frustrating when it's not a power lead you have to replace, but a data/signal cable with a nonstandard and impossible to find connector on it.
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