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Re:Google Is Said to Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset ... by asdsa5325 on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:20PM (#17210972)
> "If we don't, someone else will" is not an ethical get-out-of-jail-free card.

True, but at the same time, "let's not do this" also isn't an ethical get-out-of-jail-free card. Google engineers can act all high and mighty morally, but guess what: it doesn't matter at all either way.

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Re:Google Is Said to Not Renew Pentagon Contract That Upset ... by jonathanyc on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:31PM (#17211035)
What Google engineers are doing in this situation is strictly better both in the utilitarian and in the Kantian sense. Saying “it doesn’t matter at all either way” is a non-argument.
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