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Serious question: Is it wrong to work for organizations that have done horrible things? The US government has plenty of blood on its hands from the past few centuries. Yet I don't think it follows that everyone should quit. Rather, if you're a moral person, it seems better to think about you can enact positive change from within, rather than seeking to morally disentangle yourself from an organization you find unethical and thereby allowing it to become even more unethical.

And of course, the US governement is different from Facebook in many ways. Perhaps the same logic of not working for them doesn't apply. But if it doesn't, I think it would be helpful to explain why.




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