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It isn't wrong of Google to work their country's military. If not Google, some other company will take those contracts. They need to own up the responsibility

It isn't wrong of Google to work their country's military. If not Google, some other company will take those contracts. They need to own up the responsibility for their decisions and of course be willing to put on with the media theme that "Google - the company that supplies AI tech to the military with possible usage in war". Denying that is what makes them look even fishier. I already distrust the company for anything related to privacy. Just one more reason to hate them more.

opportune 8y ago
Nothing wrong with IBM helping the Nazis count prisoners. If not them, some other company would have taken the contract This absurdly cowardly thinking is how people justify atrocities for money
- Goronmon 8y ago
  You're exactly right. Working with the military is exactly the same as helping the Nazis.
- reacharavindh 8y ago
  Treating companies as social personalities is just stupid. Google is a business, and it is there to make money (whilst not damaging itself too much that it goes out of existence). My point is, that Google as a company(their leadership) could choose to work with the military, and even openly build weapons for a country, as long as that motive is public, and bear the hate from public that they are a piece of shit company that whored out to the military. But, cat calling a company on forums whilst there are other companies that openly build weapons is just useless in my opinion.
  - opportune 8y ago
    Essentially everything we do on forums is useless, I don’t know why calling a company immoral is any different. All businesses exist to make money but if the pushback to a publicly perceived immoral act is great enough then they won’t do the immoral things. For example, I can say as a software developer that I would prefer not to work at google over my current employer because I don’t want to do immoral things. I do have a perceived moral outlook of the company’s leadership as a whole and that’s a decision that I can make. Not sure why you seem to think that’s stupid Also at the end of the day, nobody is absolved of guilt from doing something just because it made them money. That’s possibly the dumbest way to justify doing something as good

opportune 8y ago

Nothing wrong with IBM helping the Nazis count prisoners. If not them, some other company would have taken the contract This absurdly cowardly thinking is how people justify atrocities for money

Goronmon 8y ago
You're exactly right. Working with the military is exactly the same as helping the Nazis.
reacharavindh 8y ago
Treating companies as social personalities is just stupid. Google is a business, and it is there to make money (whilst not damaging itself too much that it goes out of existence). My point is, that Google as a company(their leadership) could choose to work with the military, and even openly build weapons for a country, as long as that motive is public, and bear the hate from public that they are a piece of shit company that whored out to the military. But, cat calling a company on forums whilst there are other companies that openly build weapons is just useless in my opinion.
- opportune 8y ago
  Essentially everything we do on forums is useless, I don’t know why calling a company immoral is any different. All businesses exist to make money but if the pushback to a publicly perceived immoral act is great enough then they won’t do the immoral things. For example, I can say as a software developer that I would prefer not to work at google over my current employer because I don’t want to do immoral things. I do have a perceived moral outlook of the company’s leadership as a whole and that’s a decision that I can make. Not sure why you seem to think that’s stupid Also at the end of the day, nobody is absolved of guilt from doing something just because it made them money. That’s possibly the dumbest way to justify doing something as good