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Comment by ToucanLoucan | Hacker News Reader

I mean it makes sense right, when you really think about it: money.

You also don't really have a choice but to play ball with the national security establishment.

Tell that to Edward Snowden, Lindsay Mills, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning... so many. Some complicated figures in their own right, all of whom took principled stands against such apparatus, most of whom paid dearly for doing so, many of which continue to pay dearly for doing so.

It's possible. It just won't make you rich, which is, I suspect, the real problem.

> all of whom took principled stands against such apparatus.

Yeah, and look what happened to them.

Principled stances aren't often a path to prosperity. They do, however, afford you the luxury of not actively contributing to mass murder.

If Hobby Lobby can be Christian, any business can be Buddhist.

Even Buddhist countries can have an aggressive military - see Myanmar.

> Nissim Amon is an Israeli Zen master and meditation teacher. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces under the Nahal Brigade and fought in the Lebanon War. [...] In 2023, during the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip in response to the 7 October Hamas attack, he published a video teaching Israeli troops how to shoot with an emphasis on breathing and relaxing while being "cool, without compassion or mercy".

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim_Amon & translation of the original message from Amon: https://sites.google.com/view/nissimamontranslation )

It doesn't matter if you're being hypocritical. It's already nonsensical that a corporation can have a "sincerely held belief", so you might as well exploit the existing corruption and say "we're a sincerely Buddhist business and can't help with killing".

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