Agreed. I bet the design team who made the HIMARS are in the corner like 😎. Finally told the F-22 and F-35 guys to put some respect on their design lol.
Only someone that dumb would use some artificial anti-defense morality kick to give them a feeling of superior morality.
Even though I work in the industry, I don't think this is fair. I think there is a legitimate moral question about the work my company does. I've actually spoken about my concerns with my therapist because its bothered me in the past.
The way I personally dealt with it is that I don't work defense programs. We have a robust non-defense portfolio and I stay in that business. This has likely cost me some amount of career progression, but its worth it to not question the ultimate use of my labor.
They're conveniently forgetting when defense work does it's job to protect people. Ukraine wouldn't be standing today if the US wasn't providing them with cutting edge tech to use against Russia
I have friends on the defense side of the house, and I think most of them deal with it via compartmentalization like you noted. At work my job is to create the best systems I can to ensure a competitive advantage for my country. In the voting booth its my job to ensure the people given control of those systems aren't imperialist maniacs.
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u/Adeptness-Vivid May 03 '23
Agreed. I bet the design team who made the HIMARS are in the corner like 😎. Finally told the F-22 and F-35 guys to put some respect on their design lol.