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> I'm curious if your opinion on this extends to, say, IG Farben providing Zyklon B to the Nazis Wasn't IG Farben already taking in political money to find suc
by its-summertime 6y ago
> I'm curious if your opinion on this extends to, say, IG Farben providing Zyklon B to the Nazis
Wasn't IG Farben already taking in political money to find such chemicals?
> Research by Fritz Haber of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry led to the founding in 1919 of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (Degesch), a state-controlled consortium formed to investigate military use of the chemical.
of which IG Farben was a part. So it seems like this would suggest to not add politics (la military weapons research) to engineering
- dTal 6y agoWhat's "political money"? Does it come in different denominations to regular money? Should IG Farben have refused to do business with the Nazi regime on ethical grounds? I'm confused - should companies pick and choose who they do business with, or shouldn't they?
- its-summertime 6y agoWell it'd be a company explicitly avoiding getting into politics wouldn't it? I don't think anyone has spoken against companies getting to pick and choose in this chain, just on what merits they should pick and choose on