Re:A brief update
by coldtea on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:50PM
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>Seriously, on Hacker News you're going to make a political comment that has zero to do with anything I commented on? A DoD software contractor has no control over congressional level politics.
No, but they still assist those politics (and often proudly) with their engineering.
I don't really think the "it's above my paycheck concern" attitude is really moral.
>The reality is that they were there / still there so while you work to campaign for changing the reality are you suggesting we should NOT make things better for our soldiers to stay safer?
Yes, I believe we should question such things.
Unfortunately, if we give some examples about other people in other eras using similar excuses ("it was a reality, so we were just doing our job to make our military safer/more effective"), someone is going to invoke Godwin's law.
No, but they still assist those politics (and often proudly) with their engineering.
I don't really think the "it's above my paycheck concern" attitude is really moral.
>The reality is that they were there / still there so while you work to campaign for changing the reality are you suggesting we should NOT make things better for our soldiers to stay safer?
Yes, I believe we should question such things.
Unfortunately, if we give some examples about other people in other eras using similar excuses ("it was a reality, so we were just doing our job to make our military safer/more effective"), someone is going to invoke Godwin's law.