Why is there so much hatred against NSO. They are an arms manufacturer. Arms will be acquired with or without them. If you are suing them them there are many o

Why is there so much hatred against NSO. They are an arms manufacturer. Arms will be acquired with or without them. If you are suing them them there are many other companies, some in the US that do similar things but for law enforcement. How is it fair to blame the weapons maker for selling to legitimate governments. Let's use the same logic and apply it to kinetic weapons: US defense contractors made and sold weapons to saudi arabia who used it to kill a lot of Yemenis, mostly civilians. Should not these defense contractors be sued by any Yemeni-American whose relatives were killed by saudi arabia? Well that can't happen for many reasons but my favorite is the fact that private companies selling to foreign governments are not required to evaluate the intentions of that government, merely its legitimacy and follow the country's laws on foreign arms sales. Did the NSO group violate Israeli law? No. So they traded with the legitimate governments of foreign nations lawfully. Is there a US law that requires evaluating the intent of foreign governments by foreign (or domestic) companies when selling cyber or other weapons? No. The fact is, selling to governments is not the same as selling to individuals. When an individual wants to murder someone, selling them a weapon knowingly makes you complicit in the murder. Governments are special because so long as they are legitimate, they can murder their own people as much as they want. Even commit genocide (unless they signed a treaty in the past to make them accountable to an international court). I keep running into this frustraring sentiment that so many of my fellow americans (and westerners) for some reason refuse to understand and honor a foreign nation's sovreignity. Of course I disagree with what the central american governments are doing to their own journalists. But it is up to those sovreign nations to self-determine, with or without fairness or democracy or the will of the people their own fate. They are sovreign, that means external people or governments don't get to impose their will or ways or hold them accountable without the consent of their government. I can't decide if this arrogant view is a left over from manifest destiny in the US or europe's claim that they colonized forein sovreign nations because their ways were barbaric and wrong. Every native american government the US eradicated or african,latin and asian country whose governments were removed by force to colonize them was neither democratic nor did they trear their own people under the same rules against cruelty and fairness that existed in the west and their invasion was justified as "better for them" in every case. Let those journalists and people fight for the change they desire and fail or succeed under their own terms. It is their own neighbors and citizens that are members of any police or military force keeping their government in power and revolutions happen without the CIA or the west meddling and installing a puppet or undermining sovreignity. A person cannot claim to have learned from the errors of their ancestors if that person refuses to let go of those very same erring ways.