This is the kind of rationalization I am referring to.

“Software is eating the world”, but also “not working on antisocial tech is too difficult aaah”.

Is it though? Finding some ethically neutral Crud gig?

So work for mercenaries, and tell people “it’s just a job?”

Maybe there are shades of gray between black and white.

this is like arguing that laws are useless because theyre not bulletproof. please stop with this pseudological thinking

"There are lots of bad things" does not imply "all bad things are equally bad and therefore it's not worthwhile to try to prevent any of them"

> ...he said, shovelling orphans into the crushing machine

this is the high quality content that I come to HN for