Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
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Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#2Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#3Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/drone-strikes-...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone...
Whatever you think of civilian deaths, don’t forget that we assasinated 6 US citizens without a trial. Freedoms my ass. What about the freedom of people attending a wedding or receiving medical treatment not to be killed? If this was another country doing the same to the US, would your non-argument hold water?
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#4Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/drone-strikes-... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone... Whatever you think of civilian deaths, don’t forget that we assasinated 6 US citizens without a trial. Freedoms my ass. What about the freedom of people attending a wedding or receiving medical treatment not to be killed? If this was another country doing the same to the US, would your non-a…
Wars always have casualties. Technology helps to reduce them. In WW2 it was normal to wipe whole cities using bombs.
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/drone-strikes-... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone... Whatever you think of civilian deaths, don’t forget that we assasinated 6 US citizens without a trial. Freedoms my ass. What about the freedom of people attending a wedding or receiving medical treatment not to be killed? If this was another country doing the same to the US, would your non-a…
Wars always have casualties. Technology helps to reduce them. In WW2 it was normal to wipe whole cities using bombs.
because wars would have far fewer casualties without firebombing and nukes
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#6Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
/r/thedonald is leaking
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#7Love how “some employees” at Google are bent out of shape that Google would help the DoD. To those employees: it’s cool, just sit back, write code, drink your fancy coffees and be self absorbed while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
> while patriots defend you and do the hard work of defending freedoms.
You probably don't realize that there are war veterans, and active service members (e.g. National Guard, Reserves) working for tech companies like Google. But then again, such realization would be a real downer to your agenda.
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#8I think this is a good example of how their old ethos of "Do no evil" was a narrow-minded fantasy by privileged white people who never had to face the world they were born into.
Sitting in your expensive apartment (raising rents so that the former neighbors can no longer afford to live here), sipping your Starbucks (a global commodity dependent on trade deals to somewhat stabilize paying farmers around the world about a dollar a day), eating your Blue Apron salad (sourced by illegal immigrants who have to work for peanuts with virtually no rights or social services because their livelihood is constantly in jeopardy), sitting at your desk in your clothes with your gadgets (which were all made overseas by poor people for pennies in order for them to send money back to their families), tweeting away (absorbing and perpetuating the consumer-driven media machine infused into all of our lives).
We do evil all the time. Then the military comes along and says, "Hey, remember how your silent consent helped a political machine fight wars built on lies to drive poor Islamic people to want to kill and drive out any foreigners from their countries? We need you to help us kill them now." And you say, how dare you.
Romans lived a pampered privileged life that was literally only logistically possible by an army of slaves doing everything for them. We're not so different - the slaves are just less visible now.
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#9I think this is a good example of how their old ethos of "Do no evil" was a narrow-minded fantasy by privileged white people who never had to face the world they were born into. Sitting in your expensive apartment (raising rents so that the former neighbors can no longer afford to live here), sipping your Starbucks (a global commodity dependent on trade deals to somewhat stabilize paying farmers around the world abou…
I am either an evil person for paying my rent, drinking coffee, eating a salad and reading wikipedia on my phone while dressed, or you are a moron.
Re: Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage–employees “outraged”
#10I think this is a good example of how their old ethos of "Do no evil" was a narrow-minded fantasy by privileged white people who never had to face the world they were born into. Sitting in your expensive apartment (raising rents so that the former neighbors can no longer afford to live here), sipping your Starbucks (a global commodity dependent on trade deals to somewhat stabilize paying farmers around the world abou…
Your argument is basically an encouragement to participate in the tradgedy of the commons. Just because other people are already doing evil doesn't give you an excuse to do more!
None of the things you listed are fundamentally evil, they're just arenas in which the specific bad ethics of other individuals can play out. Other similar arenas include everything else in life. Is that a license to join in? No, it's all the more reason to make sure that everything you do is good.