This was in a conversation about a defense contractor that was hiring. I was telling people about the Yemeni civil war and how many innocent people had been killed very recently due to US weapons getting sold to genocidal regimes (this was before Oct 7th). Quoted text says "If you start to think about things that way, there's something unethical about everything you do; that's just the world we live in." They'll really come up with any excuse.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 5 days ago

I had a Palestinian-Lebanese friend who works in the industry and lied about the work he did. After calling him out on his lies ("we only do IT for state departments!" While his company's website gloated about their missiles)

He got extremely defensive. Ended that relationship but man it's insane how much people will excuse their own actions if it means getting a mediocre salary and 30 days of vacation...