[piratesAndSons]

How many degrees of separation need to exist before your culpability drops to nearly zero?

One degree? Two? Three? Someone cashing a paycheck from Facebook or Google can tout how the company is connecting people, which is like military folks saying they work in defense.

I feel like almost no one working at a for-profit company can truly escape the principle of do no harm.

The fact that I lean into the positive aspects of my work is just natural. Everyone does the same thing, since every product has both good and bad aspects.

[celticninja]

If you make bolts in a factory and some of those bolts are used for an aeroplane, some of which may be bombers it's probably negligible. If you, like the OP, are creating a drone with the specific effect of being a weapon, then I think I'm on safe ground saying there is no separation. You are actively making the world worse.