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by gnosis 4859 days ago
I would like to strongly discourage anyone from working in the so-called "defense sector", which should be (at least in the US) more properly called the "war sector".

Working to enable the more efficient murder of ever more people is highly unethical. Unfortunately, there are plenty of unethical people willing to do this bloody work. But hopefully you are not one of them.

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We're living in the Pax Americana, the most peaceful time in human history, enabled in no small part by total American military technological superiority.

Not to mention we're posting all this over a network created for the American war machine, using protocols created by a company that is a key part of the military industrial complex (BBN), which was founded by people from a university (MIT) that was then and is now one of the largest non-profit defense contractors in the country.