> average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets.

What do you mean by this? If a government conscripts "average citizens" into its military then they become valid military targets, sure.

I'm not why you think this implies that developers working for Palantir or Clearview would become military targets. Palantir builds software for the military. But the people actually using that software are military personnel, not Palantir employees.

>There are certain people who believe that average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets.

Yeah we typically call those people terrorists or war criminals.

I never worked at a company that could broadly be considered unethical, I don't think. But it was always a bit disheartening how many little obviously unethical decisions (e.g., advertised monthly plans with a small print "annual contract" and cancellation fee) almost every other employee would just go along with implementing, no pushback whatsoever. I don't know what it is, but your average employee seemingly sees themselves as wholly separate from the work they're paid to do.

I have friends who are otherwise extremely progressive people, who I think are genuinely good people, who worked for Palantir for many years. The cognitive dissonance they must've dealt with...