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Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by parthdesai on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:25PM (#17776687)
Democracy with personal freedom while invading foreign nations and killing innocent civilians in the process == good?
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by ethicsengineer on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:27PM (#17776707)
There are many things that the US does that are bad. I can't think of one thing the PRC government does that is good.
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by parthdesai on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:28PM (#17776722)
right, and i countering your first sentence. Not everything has to be binary. One can be bad and other can be worst.
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by privacypoller on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:43PM (#17776897)
Except good and bad are relative, not absolute. In your case you seem to be comparing to a personal notion of "good", but it's still relative.

You also state that "not everything has to be binary" and then say something can be "worst", which is the same absolute you seem to be arguing against

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by drak0n1c on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:15PM (#17778474)
Improved military technology in the area of sensors, precision, and communications (what Google was working on) actually reduces collateral damage and civilian deaths in ops that are going to happen regardless of hand-wringing.

Imagine how much worse things would be if technical progress stopped 70 years ago and the military only had battleship cannon fire and napalm firebombing at its disposal.

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by dominotw on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:34PM (#17776776)
Iraq invasion was initially welcomed by vast majority of iraqis and US were initially seen as the liberators. So "invading" is not the correct word to use because it was not seen as such by Iraqis.
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by house9-2 on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:45PM (#17776921)
> Iraq invasion was...

> So "invading" is not the correct word...

I think you are contradicting yourself?

We invaded on false pretense 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' if I recall - it was an invasion and ideally it should have been an effort driven by the UN instead of the Republican party of the USA.

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by parthdesai on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:40PM (#17776852)
And what is the state of Iraq right now? How many people have died just because some power hungry lunatic "was sure" that Iraq had WMD's?

What about Libya? What is the state of Libya? Let's not even get started on Afghanistan. Do you even know of Task force 47 in war of 1971 between India-Pakistan?

I'm not well versed in geo politics of Latin America but there have been cases over there as well where US would meddle in internal affairs of a country and overthrow a ruler.

Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by Leary on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:38PM (#17776832)
So welcomed in fact they invited American troops to remain there for 10 years.
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by TheForumTroll on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:29PM (#17777313)
No, at wast wast majority never saw the US as liberators. Quite the opposite. Are you in a filter bubble or military?
Re:Google Employees Protest Work on Censored Search Engine f... by dominotw on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:04PM (#17777589)
I got that from this documentary

https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Run-Baghdad-Not-Specified/dp/...

Its shot from the POV of bhagdadis