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How do you respond when you meet a real world ghoul? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like every day I meet more guys on a Raytheon coop program or some other project building weapons. How are you supposed to respond when all you can think about when looking at them is the deaths and the blowback their work is directly causing? I know that being well adjusted to a sick world is not a good thing, anyone who can shrug off mass murder to be professional is on their way to being a ghoul themselves.

That being said though, if I went on a Jeremiad every time I met one of these guys I'd be an utter pariah. So fair I've just tried to avoid these people and used them as a reminder of what we struggle against. How do you deal with it?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So fair I've just tried to avoid these people and used them as a reminder of what we struggle against

This basically
People who are literally working for weapons companies aren't going to be easily swayed that their way of life is evil. It's not worth the emotional effort or looking weird in front of coworkers for no benefit.

I think this advice technically makes me a lib according to Mao, but I think he was writing more about fellow comrades than people who should be getting the wall anyway

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Oh I've never entertained the idea of trying to convince them lol, they're already absorbed into that different world. But it just feels like I'm being a lib if I'm sitting down at a table and someone else starts talking about their drone project and I do nothing but pretend I don't hear what they're talking about. 1 nazi at the table and all that.