"If we don't do it, someone else will". There is probably no other argument more responsible for bringing us to the brink of nuclear holocaust than this one. Th

"If we don't do it, someone else will". There is probably no other argument more responsible for bringing us to the brink of nuclear holocaust than this one. This is the argument that convinced the otherwise pacifist Einstein to write to president Roosevelt, urging for the Manhattan project. So what's evil about it? Nothing by itself, it is self-evident that we can not allow our enemies be more powerful than us. But there is a second step, which has to follow: those powers have to be used for a universal good which go beyond our selfish identity interests. If not then we become the enemy ourselves. I believe the reason that many are protesting against corporations handing over their technology to the military is because they feel this second step is missing. Right or wrong, they feel that the state has lost its moral compass.