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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Re: The Ethics of Work...
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 13:50:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 13:50:13 1986
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This article is from topaz!phoenix!picuxa!warren
 and was received on Thu Aug  7 05:21:24 1986
 

>  From my limited experience in this area, it seems like there are pretty
> much three reasons why people work in, say, Department of Defence companies;
> 
>    1. It's a job.
>    2. I'm all for military buildup!
>    3. It's the only place I can work on such great <x>!

How about:

   4. It will go on even if I quit.

   5. I would rather no one had to do this job, but since we haven't achieved
   world peace yet someone has to do this.

I think this last one is based on a sound moral position while the first
four are rationalizations.  I think the only way you could argue with #5
is to claim that it would be better to disarm before achieving world peace.

warren