I think it’s ok to have that self awareness about where your values line is, when it’s paired with understanding that you’re able to abstract away that public s

I think it’s ok to have that self awareness about where your values line is, when it’s paired with understanding that you’re able to abstract away that public service to someone else who does it for you. A ton of folks want to have a free lunch in that respect, especially in tech. God help them if Amazon wins the JEDI contract while they work there, but other nefarious work FAANGs get up to while employed at one is ok as long as it’s ~out of sight. Like the Dragonfly project at GOOG... Similarly, there’s this issue of so much fundamental tech came out of huge DARPA grants, NIST work, and so on. It’s ok if you don’t want to be the one working with DARPA/DDS, but tech’s roots are so tied to them that it has to be ack’d. The line of folks who “would be in the DoD but for X” is long, and it’s a comically reoccurring conversation for people who do DoD work. That conversation is much different if that awareness exists, though.