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the ethics of the international arms trade are obviously suspect.
that a firm like lockheed martin would be part of it is clear---that not all aspects of lockheed martin's production is directly tied to this trade is also pretty obvious, if you think about it a little. think about it more and things get blurry again.
whether there should be an international arms trade--whether private firms should be allowed to sell weapons/weapons systems on the open market--thereby endangering lives and contributing to all kinds of bad outcomes--is an important question. under present conditions, if a firm decides to play that game, and explicitly to subordinate human life to profit, they should be prepared to take any and all criticism that attends it.
there is no more obscene dimension of capitalism than the international arms trade, no place in which the fact that profit overrides human dignity--and survival--is more clear.
(sorry will--we must have been posting almost simultaneously--these say about the same thing...)
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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