Yes, I believe in human rights.
Let the free market decide.
This. If you don't like ICO's in general, then just avoid it. Simple.
Under the correct conditions, I would invest in an ICO.
(quality, respected, experienced developers; a great idea/roadmap; a plan for how they will implement it; is it a realistic plan?; developers not anonymous; something I think may be valuable in the future; is there competition?; is it fairly distributed?; etc.)
I have never bought an ICO. I like waiting for them to get listed in an exchange then watch the price action and volume/liquidity. I do not exactly know what goes on behind the scenes when a coin/token gets listed but you'll know that a team behind a platform knows what their doing because the maintained volume for their coins is always high right from the beginning. A prime example of this is Ethereum.
It would be naive to think that the market activity will just come without some kind of manipulation going on to jump start trading.