Morality usually boils down to shouting matches, so I'll avoid getting into that, sorry. And my job is certainly not high-influence. :) My tobacco analogy was

Morality usually boils down to shouting matches, so I'll avoid getting into that, sorry. And my job is certainly not high-influence. :) My tobacco analogy was not trying to say that without tobacco the farmers would starve. Rather, it was about pointing out that quants are merely providing a service that people want. Quants aren't the evil lobbyists, or the ineffective regulators, or the guys peddling to kids. There is nothing illegal about what quants are doing, so anything else is morality, which again I'm not touching.