The bombed schoolgirls were "private individuals" in any reasonable meaning of "private individual".
Yes, military power is evil, but it’s a necessary evil. A society that decides to stop making weapons is going to be subjugated by one that continues to make them. Full stop.
It's not the bait on HN that you need to be worried about but the propaganda from your own government.
You're saying the above is bait, when your own comment is nothing but it.
Questionable and violent US foreign policy is much much older than the current Trump administration.
My comment here is about the ethics of military weapons vs assassinations of private individuals. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
> Sam eagerly pursued DoD contracts to weaponize AI. And then lobbied for legislation to ensure OpenAI cannot be held accountable if people are killed due to their systems.".
Your comment can't both A. be relevant as a reply to the above B. yet have "no idea what I'm talking about", as if it is not relevant. Either both of us are saying something relevant, or neither of us are. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
So should we really applaud selling shiny new toys that will enable more baseless cruelty? Probably not. Just like we shouldn't support political terrorism.