• Riddick3001@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In case you wanna know whom they were trying to kill; it was Armin Papperger, the head of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall.

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      2 days ago

      Weirdly enough Im kinda alright with weapon merchants or anyone similar involved in profiteering from war taking a personal toll in it themselves.

      Didnt Ukraine assasinate some russian missile specialist a while back with the west applauding it after finding out? Dont play games you dont want to have a part in seems highly fitting here. There are plenty of other ways to make a decent living.

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        Idk if you’re just trolling, but I’m a prototype engineer and I can’t, and would refuse if asked, to work on a weapons system. It’s even extremely difficult to decide to accept a defensive only tech, unless it’s apparent it could never be used for offensive purposes(I’d build a technological marvel of a wall, but nothing that moves), and that frankly hurts financially, Dar’s money in dem dar weapons manufacturing… But I will not have MY technology used to kill innocents.

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          16 hours ago

          Im not.

          As long as we’re fine with killing the enemies weapon engineers we should expect the same to ours without complaints.

      • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 days ago

        I think it’s sick that people downvote this in the name of civility. I understand people not wanting to make a super solid link between wealthy magic bean salesmen and societal issues and seeing it as a slippery slope, but the weapons industry? Fucking come on.

        If you profit from the most literal form of human suffering, you are a statistical outlier even among outliers. I can’t think of many less ethical things to enrich yourself from than making the world a deadlier place.