Of all my colleagues I've had the chance to have a real talk with, defense was the only vertical where the developers more-often-than-not had a robust understan

Of all my colleagues I've had the chance to have a real talk with, defense was the only vertical where the developers more-often-than-not had a robust understanding of the moral and ethical questions their products posed. I might disagree with their choice to work there, but I respect that choice 1000 times more than the unexamined position. The default attitude I see elsewhere is that everyone has decided their employer is benign, and they'll figure out the "why" part later (or never).