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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] 14 points 2 years ago

I'd imagine the level of effort will be proportional to the number of layers of abstraction they have from the use of their productivity to kill and maim civilians. If they are directly working on some death machine product, it might be possible to draw their attention to this, but no guarantees that they will care as us-foreign-policy implies.

If they are just engineering some widget that happens to be used in the supply chain for death machines or similar, probably not going to have any luck using this line of reasoning unless they are already left leaning.