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No need to get serious. Only a sith deals in absolutes. There's plenty of work within the us military that is definitely not evil. Even within the field of weapons development. You could say develop a target selection approach that is less likely to blow up a school halfway across the world than existing approaches. You are literally saving lives working on that project, despite what the people who only see in black and white and make grandstand positions online might think.

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"You could say develop a target selection approach that is less likely to blow up a school halfway across the world than existing approaches."

Sure, you save some lives. Then the military realizes they can apply violence far more liberally than they ever could before. Subsequent conflicts result in a whole lot more death for the losing side. Maybe a lot more "militar-aged men" end up as cannon fodder for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Or... do those lives not count? Depends on your definition of "evil," I guess: I'm using the Christian one.

There’s a story in the Christian Bible about David, Old Testament. He was told to fire arrows into the ground. He shot 3. The response he got was something like “you should have shot more, now you’ll only sack 3 cities.”

Tell me more about lives, Christianity, and war.

Anyone who knows anything about Christianity knows that the New Testament supersedes the Old Testament.

Man this made me laugh, that’s too funny. Either you forgot a /s or you sincerely have no idea what you’re talking about.

>You could say develop a target selection approach that is less likely to blow up a school halfway across the world than existing approaches.

Then your new target selection approach is used specifically to target a school, and you just made the weapon more accurate.

You dont get to build shit for the military AND determine what its used for.

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