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The "bad things" that happen are that house elves lose all sense of purpose and become depressed drunks like Winky. The argument is house elves only know how to be slaves and freeing them removed their self-worth.
If that sounds familiar it's exactly the same argument southern state slave owners used to justified continued slavery of black people. JK Rowling is such a complete chud she goes beyond normal Br*tsh hog and somehow became a sneering Confederate.
Yeah it's just such an inane argument that even my teenager doodoo brain was like, "Wait. What?"
It's funny because it's set up almost like the book is going to prove to the reader that it isn't true. Hagrid and a few others all say it as a thought-terminating cliche - but the one house elf Harry knows personally actually hates being enslaved and greatly treasures freedom when he gets it. A better writer would have used this setup to show how wizarding society justifies its own bigotry to itself, but Rowling didn't want to imply that anyone she considered to be on the "good" team might have internal contradictions or be implicit in bad systems.
no good or bad actions only good and bad people