My point is the double-standard in the tech community making that argument on behalf of one kind of technology, while ignoring that weapons extend from the very

My point is the double-standard in the tech community making that argument on behalf of one kind of technology, while ignoring that weapons extend from the very basic human need for security and agency. It's a standard human fallacy, which I've made numerous times: we look at the intentions of ourselves (the tech community) while looking at the results of others (eg, the military). But the question we really need to be asking is if our impact on the world leads to better outcomes than theirs, regardless of what either group intended -- and I'm not sure it's so clear cut, once you account for second order effects of social media. And it's certainly not as simple a moral calculus as "Well, they work on weapons so they're worse people than me!"