TLDR;
It literally hurts me personally to see this happening. It’s like a kick in the gut. I used to be proud about having had an involvement with the Linux kernel community in a previous life. This doesn’t feel like the community I remember being part of.
You can 100% choose not to work for a military contractor making weapons you know will be used against civilians by a genocidal government.
Except if they’re on “our side” if course.
Of course you can, but I don’t see how that’s relevant.