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I feel this. There have been many times the temptation of “badassery” has sorely pulled against my own moral/ethical stances. Lots of projects I’d have genuine

I feel this. There have been many times the temptation of “badassery” has sorely pulled against my own moral/ethical stances. Lots of projects I’d have genuinely enjoyed working on, but which I’d have hated myself knowing all the ways the tech I’d have been building could be misused (and too often in the fullness of time, when developed by other people, was misused in exactly the obvious ways).

analognoise 6y ago
There is no way to have zero impact - even the act of doing nothing can be interpreted as acceptance or even support of what's happening around you. There's no way to only have a positive impact as well - there are always side effects. In HN terms, life isn't functionally pure.