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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by psunavy03 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @12:30PM (#40159597)
Wars suck. But sometimes the result of not fighting a war sucks more. Sure, military projects could POTENTIALLY kill innocent civilians. But that's not a guarantee, modern Western militaries go out of their way to minimize that, and again sometimes the result of not fighting a war would cause even more innocent people to suffer or die.

The idea that "this one bad thing could happen, therefore I will do nothing that could remotely cause this one bad thing" is childish reasoning.

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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by nerdponx on Friday April 26, 2024 @12:33PM (#40171346)
There are plenty of things that people can and do in private industry that are significantly more harmful than making some incremental improvement in a weapons platform.
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