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[quote=Anonymous]I would never work for fossil fuel companies, or alcohol or tobacco or marijuana businesses. I refuse to work for insurance companies, in the business of denying claims to as many victims as possible. I happen to know that healthcare middlemen just suck money out of and exploit the terrible system we have here.

I have mixed feelings about pharmaceutical companies, because as a biologist, I know that they create and bring to market life-saving drugs without which millions of humans would die; that one drug costs on average 1-2 BILLIONS to develop; but the high prices they maintain prevent low-income people from benefiting from these drugs, unless additional social net programs are put in place to lower drug costs. I know that in the European Union, where drugs are capped in price to stay affordable, some American meds don't see the light of day, because they're just too expensive for their universal health care systems to support... so no country has yet reached a reasonable middle ground regarding affordable yet innovative medications.

In view of all these other business practices, helping the government build a comprehensive defense (in the largest sense of the word, because all government contracts have generous margins vis-a-vis usefulness/cost ratios and general cronyism)  doesn't seem overly unethical, unless you labor under the belief that peace is achieved by canceling the army and canceling the weapons. No. Peace is only kept, in a very temporary way, by having a more modern army and more efficient weaponry than the other guy. You build it and you hope not to have to use it.

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