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Article #126Re: The Ethics of Work...
From: Dave Taylor
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1986 17:50
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1986 17:50
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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
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucbcad!nike!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: <534@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 13:50:13 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsc.534 Posted: Thu Aug 7 13:50:13 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 08:40:33 EDT Reply-To: hplabs!topaz!phoenix!picuxa!warren Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: taylor@hplabs Reference: <524@hplabsc.UUCP>