Pretty lame excuse. If I don't sell drugs, some else will.
If you're doing it, you are already the one with less scruples.
Do you think the victims care about the scruples of the perpetrator?
There's this ideal human sociology, and then there's the reality of what we really are. It takes a unique person to accept it, and do the wrong thing for the right reason, and also be able to steer things in the eventual right direction.
And do you think dropping the bomb on Germany would have humbled them or would they seek revenge in the long term?
The bombs brought as MAD and that only works as long all parties try to stay alive and don't there is a paradise in the afterlife if they die for a holy cause.
It didn't. The fear was that the Nazis might develop nuclear weapons and use them to end the war on its own terms [1].
> do you think dropping the bomb on Germany would have humbled them or would they seek revenge in the long term?
Yes, our eternal enemy the Japanese.
> bombs brought as MAD and that only works as long all parties try to stay alive and don't there is a paradise in the afterlife if they die for a holy cause
Fair enough.
In part by firebombing them indiscriminately. The way we won WWII would later be technically outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.
That said, I don't think most of what Palantir actually delivers on fits this mold. They're just generally cruddy.
If you refuse to deal with drug addiction, you shouldn't be surprised when drug dealers do.
That's like saying, I kill people with a clean knife, I don't want them to get an infection from a dirty blade.