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I would argue no.

Technologies are just means of directing energy. The difference between a tool and weapon is were the energy is directed. If you use a hammer to direct energy into a nail, it's tool. If you use it to direct energy into a person, it's weapon.

Any high energy technology is automatically a high energy weapon.

Getting into orbit requires a lot of energy and thus any technology that could put you into orbit could also direct that energy against people and serve as a weapon.

Consider the Olympus Mons scenario advanced by @Nerrolken. Merely climbing up a mountain or other means to space would in effect store positional energy. If you use that energy to step off into space fine, but you could also use that energy to propel things against the ground below, producing a weapon. It would be like carrying an anvil up on a roof and dropping it on someone.

A space elevator, for example would seem just a structure, but you can run something up the elevator and fling of the top like a stone from a sling. It could hit objects in space or even the surface as tens of thousands of miles per hour.

Moreover, once you are in orbit, regardless of how you got there. You have vast amounts of stored potential energy. So, anything in orbit with mass is potential weapon.

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