<story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6ue7nNMEEbHcM</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen that kind of thinking in the past and it&amp;#x27;s pretty popular view. I&amp;#x27;m just not so sure about this moral aspect.&lt;p&gt;Why do you think it&amp;#x27;s more moral&amp;#x2F;ethical to abstain of supporting military? Maybe you won&amp;#x27;t do this but be sure that in some other country some similarly talented people will.&lt;p&gt;If you (and many others) abstain from it on similar basis you and closest people you know may be in danger of being affected by more advanced military equipment other (possibly hostile) armies can get.&lt;p&gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s just not in people heads that world and homeland safety is not given for free and granted forever.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/google-engineers-refused-to-build-security-tool-to-win-military-contracts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robin_reala</author><text>Every company I apply to is told during the interview process that I will not work on military projects, and that I would probably leave the company if they chose to take on a military contract. If you have personal moral limits and you’re upfront about them then no-one is the worse off; I’ve yet to be turned down for a job over it and, somewhat the opposite, companies seem to appreciate frankness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not that black and white.&lt;p&gt;Working on missile guidance? Then I can see your point of view... but everything else in some way facilitates or contributes to facilitating such things.&lt;p&gt;One can rapidly reduce it to &amp;quot;fixing a Linux bug... facilitates the military industrial complex&amp;quot;. You might wish to not work on things that directly are used by the military, but the vast majority of technology is indirectly used because the military and their supporting companies, processes, logistics is so broad that it&amp;#x27;s almost everything.&lt;p&gt;At which point can you say your work truly does not facilitate or contribute?</text></comment>