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From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
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Subject: DoD monies well spent??
Message-ID: <506@linus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 15:28:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  4 15:28:38 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 23:00:49 EST
Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA
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Sure, DoD spends money on warheads.  They also spend money on useful
research like the ARPANET.  To say one who accepts money from DoD is
furthering the cause of war is not wholly true.  I would never work
on missles
or in any way promote their use.  I've turned own jobs to do just
that.  On the other hand, I (second-hand) get DoD money to secure
computers.  Securing computers is a defensive task, not offensive.
Because one of the tasks of the DoD is to build nasty projectiles,
one cannot condemn other things it does.  
It's the purpose of the project that matters, not the source of
the money.  I think of DoD as the channel of the money between the
taxpayers and ultimately my company and me.  I am tempted to draw
an analogy between stereotyping and the problems people have with
ANY task supported by DoD.
-- 
	--steve kramer
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