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That also deflects moral responsibility away from Palantir: they have and had every choice to question the purpose of their contracts. The essence of Palantir i
by nxobject 1y ago
That also deflects moral responsibility away from Palantir: they have and had every choice to question the purpose of their contracts. The essence of Palantir is specifically pursuing government surveillance contracts as a lucrative, never ending source of profit.
No doubt Deloitte or any other contractor shop would be able to do the same thing - but they don’t choose to.
- mrlongroots 1y ago> No doubt Deloitte or any other contractor shop would be able to do the same thing - but they don’t choose to. I'm sorry but I absolutely disagree that the reason say Deloitte is leaving a few hundred billion dollars on the table is the presence of a moral compass.
- pydry 1y agoIt might be. Deloitte dont specifically select for employees who dont have one.
- mrlongroots 1y agoIf a selection mechanism is orthogonal to a property, it seems weird to argue that the selected subset is distributed differently along that axis than the broader population.
- jjani 1y agoI wouldn't be so sure of that.
- andoando 1y agoWhat you think is ethical is different from what I think is ethical. The power shouldn't be solidified in a few hands period.
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- bumby 1y agoEthics, in simple terms, is how we treat each other. If you claim it’s intrinsically attached to something like decentralized power, it’s at the least a misunderstanding and possibly a misapplied dogma.
- user____name 1y agoI think you're conflating ethics with morality.
- claw-el 1y agoI am curious if you think that the payment processing companies refusing to serve legal yet undesirable businesses to be in a similar situation as this Palantir situation here?
- Terr_ 1y agoAnalogy: It's true that TNT is, on its own, just a tool, and vastly useful for mining and demolition. But if the major vendor and purveyor happens to be Blow Thine Enemies To Tiny Bits Incorporated, developing faster fuses and embedded shrapnel, then people are right to be concerned about "The TNT stuff".