[sneak]

What evidence do we have that any of that military technology was directly reused in the civilian applications? Furthermore, to make such claims is to say that the military developing this technology, plus the associated mass murder that results, is somehow a better deal than privately paying to develop this technology from scratch independently without the associated violence.

It’s the second part that is the nut that your argument must crack, and that is a very difficult bar to clear indeed if you in any way value human life.