[gweinberg]

Sure, but there's a huge gap between "we all precisely agree on what 'evil' means and 'nobody has a clue what evil means'.

It's pretty unreasonable for somebody to say "I personally think this is evil so I can't be fired for refusing to do it, even though I'm the only one", but it's a lot more reasonable if most people would agree that it is in fact evil.

I could see a judgement for the former employees if Google were helping an authoritarian government identify and punish dissidents. Working with US customs? Probably not.