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It just doesn't make sense. So it is immoral for engineers to design weapons? That's like saying it's immoral to butcher an animal. Sure go ahead, ban butcherin
by golol 2y ago
It just doesn't make sense. So it is immoral for engineers to design weapons? That's like saying it's immoral to butcher an animal. Sure go ahead, ban butchering animals in your society so everyone can feel good about themselves while they import their meat and thereby outsource the butchering instead. Or you say that everyone just stops eating meat? Fine that works but here the analogy breaks, because everyone won't just stop needing weapons.
What I can agree with is that placing a moral cost on engineering designing weapons in some way increases the actual labor cost of weapon R&D, I guess.
- bee_rider 2y agoThey didn’t mention weapons in their post. Which, given the focus of the article, seems intentional. Edit: specifically they seem to have gone for lower stakes examples.