Another point of view is that the "powers that be" is you - and me - and everyone else who has a choice to make about whether to work on technologies like these

Another point of view is that the "powers that be" is you - and me - and everyone else who has a choice to make about whether to work on technologies like these. Historically speaking, the "if I didn't build X - someone else would have" argument -- well, we all know what that has led to.