• Delascas@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Everything is relative to your prospective.

    I worked 10 years for a major EU defense contractor. Mostly on civilian projects, but not exclusively. For many years, I hid my employer from acquaintances & friends - when asked, I would just say “I work in software”. After I left that company, one of the anti-tank missile systems I had a very (very) small part developing started to tear the fuck up Russian tanks across Ukrainian farm lands.

    I don’t hide that history today.

    • VeganBtw@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      This is just moral luck. My opinion is that your work was very unethical from the get-go and you just happened to be happy with the outcome. It’s like saying you are ashamed of speeding in your car, until some day, when you crashed into Elon Musk.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        My opinion is that your work was very unethical from the get-go

        Calling any form of military “unethical” is the absolute peak level of clueless wishful thinking.

      • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I think it depends on whether you work on actual defense systems rather than assault systems.

        Anti missile systems for example.