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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Resignations
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 14:07:07 EST
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    From: ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!utzoo!henry@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
    (Henry Spencer)

    If management overrules you on something important, and you know damn well
    that you know the score and they don't, how can you ethically stay with
    that management?  Why were there no quiet resignations at M-T?

  I don't think this a fair or reasonable attitude.  It is ethical to
work for a company or a client whether or not one agrees with the
position of the company or the client.  For instance the company I
work for does a lot of SDI ("Star Wars") research.  Most of the senior
scientists and engineers I have talked to about it believe that SDI is
not feasible.  But they feel that refusing to use one's talents as
best one can on this project is usurping the authority of the elected
officials.  They decide what is to be done.  We do it if it is humanly
do-able.  If we didn't do it, someone else would.  Probably someone
who wouldn't be able to do it as well as we would.

Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be interpreted as an
opinion about the feasability of SDI.  Any opinions expressed are mine
alone and not necessarily those of my employer or its clients.
								...Keith