Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!lll-lcc!pyramid!hplabs!hplabsc!taylor From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc Subject: Re: The Ethics of Work... Message-ID: <549@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Aug-86 13:18:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.549 Posted: Tue Aug 12 13:18:33 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Aug-86 01:31:26 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!opus!bellcore!ki4pv!tanner@hplabs.HP.COM Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 16 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <524@hplabsc.UUCP> This article is from opus!bellcore!ki4pv!tanner@hplabs.HP.COM and was received on Mon Aug 11 18:56:14 1986 ) picuxa!warren indicates, as a final point, that a reason for doing ) an "evil" job is that we haven't achieved world peace, so someone ) must do it. This overlooks the argument that we haven't achieved world peace because someone \fBis\fR doing this kind of work. One way to assure peace is to have reasonably unanimous rejection of the alternative. (cribbed)--> What if they gave a war, and no one came? [an interesting point... --Dave]