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This is such a stupid argument.

You can literally justify everything and anything with this. It's low effort and just a tactic to make one's self feel better about the world.

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While I agree with you in general, it must be somewhat difficult to draw the line between what's a "good" defense contract, and what a "bad" one is. Surely we need _some_ defense contracts? Once you need some defense contracts, then I assume you want an ethical company handling them.

We keep them separate and for good reason. A threat from an enemy doesn't usually involve additional security for every Disney employee because Disney animatronics is AFAIK not a legitimate military target. Boeing primarily is a legitimate target. Where does Google want to be in that equation?

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