[evrydayhustling]

Military and intelligence agencies have a stake (and funding) in plenty of humanitarian causes -- weather prediction, food security, space exploration, etc. But as a way of bypassing researchers' beliefs, it simply isn't necessary: plenty of smart people will take military or intelligence money directly. I remember being told that Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science had over 70% of its total funding from military and intelligence contracts.

I don't think most pacifists believe their convictions will directly prevent war, or even make it significantly harder to prosecute. But demonstrating convictions can force people to hold a mirror up to their own, and can change what people accept in ways that add up to big implications. I'm not a pacifist, but I'm grateful to Dr. Kulpers for demonstrating that it is possible to make a CS career outside of the military industrial complex. Anyone who participates in the business of war should at the very least consider their rationale beyond "how else am I supposed to find work?"