For context, the PSU student council and elected body has had a resolution calling for PSU to divest from Boeing and cut all relationships since 2021, which the administration has ignored. It is the ‘democratic’ will of the student to cut ties with Boeing but you wouldn’t know that by all the kvetching and moaning in these threads and on the PSU subreddit
My fucking professor used that line of reasoning recently lmao. He's a utilitarian, so he thinks any good that comes from schools divesting in defense contractors has to be weighed by the bad, like less ability to fund Nazis in Ukraine and turn an entire generation of young men into pink mist or disabled/traumatized husks of their former selves.
Just the biggest of brains in American universities folks.
They had ABC anchors try to justify Colombia's investments "but if they didn't invest they wouldn't make money" as if there aren't other avenues or stocks to invest.
Let me guess, business or economics?
Philosophy
Utilitarian philosophy teacher? What a pleb
this is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors