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?
For a lot of these people the MIC is just a high paying job with decent unionization rates. If they could get similar work with similar conditions without the defense part, a lot of them would. Boeing, in my opinion, is a good example of this. Boeing Commercial isn't doing the best financially, while Boeing Space & Defense is doing great thanks to government contracts.
It's also important to remember that a lot of technology produced on the commercial side of things is used in defense, so even if that particular engineer has a change of heart and moves to the commercial side of the industry, they could be helping MIC just as much.
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Manufacturing consent
Your second point is definitely something I've thought about that keeps me up at night. Obviously capital is all-encompassing so it should come at no surprise, but the fact that you will have blood on your hands no matter what is something that I can't really stomach.