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by jappgar 723 days ago
very few people can afford to be ethical.

it's like Joe Rogan trashing factory farms and bragging about only eating wild elk be killed with his bare hands on his private game preserve.

writing software for an oil company doesn't make you evil it makes you like everyone else. not particularly helpful nor particularly harmful

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But surely there’s a line somewhere? Maybe not a clear line, but at least a fuzzy one.

Just about anything ever created can be used to oppress and do evil. But you don’t have to be the final step that enables that evil.

Rockets - you can build rockets to take us to the moon. And somebody will repurpose it for destruction. But you don’t have to be that somebody.