I think this is also true for investing in war companies (its the department of war now, so no need to keep up the defense charade), even if it's just part of an index fund or ETF.
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This is literally everyone with a 401k.
Yes, violence is literally all of capitalism.
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Weapons can be used for defense or offense. Just be sure that you can sleep at night with the potential consequences - and that your work may be used on the wrong side just as easily as the right side.
On the other hand, if you're working for an Israeli defense company, you can be pretty certain where your results are going to go, and should maybe just... not.
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I desperately wanted to get a degree in mechanical engineering so I could go to work for an arms company (like Heckler & Kock, FN Herstal, etc.). Never happened, got an art degree instead. Then I met a guy that owns a very small firearms company, and, well, yeesh. It's a brutally hard business. He makes a good product, he has good morals and ethics, but the market is so saturated that anyone smaller than the largest arms companies are hemorrhaging money. Glad I didn't try to live my dream now.
I may not like what governments do with arms, but good goddamn, the arms themselves are neat.
“He has good morals and ethics”
How could he possibly if he has devoted his life to creating weapons? What’s his response if and when his guns are used for violence, be it murder, suicide, armed robbery, etc? Even if he is “small time” for “enthusiasts” of the “sport” it is only a matter of time until this occurs. How does he reconcile this? That it’s not the guns fault? Just the glamorization of them, the obscene amount of them, the fact that they are readily available, pushing it onto “mental health”, or some other scapegoat that allows him to escape accountability for facilitating mortal violence.
I hope your friend goes out business and his entire industry collapses.
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I find that there's a lot of overlap between people who like engines, clocks, and guns. They're all machines with a concrete goal, harnessing an incredible force in a very controlled way, through precise, complex mechanisms and allow near complete freedom on how exactly you achieve that goal. There's a beauty to it that's hard to find anywhere else.
Here's a great idea: let's not produce any weapons and disarm unilaterally. What could go wrong?
How about we split the difference and only cut two thirds of all military spending? We would still be pouring more money into it than any country on earth.
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think it's hot today?
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I offered to leave my senior design group and find another when they were going to build a system for the military as their project. They were nice enough to change it to an automated feeder.
The feeder will be used to force feed prisoners.
dagnabbit
For my computer science internship I just dodged a drone-shaped bullet... I'm working on abstract verification of access policies instead
I’m working on abstract verification of access policies instead
😅 Here's an article on how that contributes to killing people: https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17043v1
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Engineers are rich, right? So let's blame the working class in this one particular case. /s
My university is practically owned by weapons manufacturers which sucks. Idk if that's the norm or not
People talking about morality when space Jesus explicitly told us to EXTERMINATE all the XENOS