> I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

Are you from US? You might not be. Sounds like are not aware of the multi-billion dollar (maybe even trillion dollar) military industrial complex.

Also not sure what is meant by "democratic discussion". Who are the constituents here? Everyone, employees, tech people only, HN users?

> kill people 'incorrectly'.

Right. I think that tells us where Google stands. It is already helping kill people, it just helps kill them "correctly" of course. In some kind of a nice, non-evil way presumably