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That's why it's so important for people who can hold a moral line, to do so. Violence breeds violence.

A good engineer in America can afford avoiding weapons work.

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it's good work if it helps the right people
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Who are the "right" people to kill? What happens when govt decides to aim your weapons at the "wrong" people?
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the people who are invading another country in a war of conquest, for instance

you seem to believe we live in a world where there no longer are such wars of single-handed aggression

we don't live in that world

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Right. Not knowing human nature doesn’t mean you won’t be affected by it in ways that you just haven’t thought of or don’t believe could happen to you.
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> a war of conquest

Israel invading Gaza is kind of proving the point? Those are American weapons bombing civilians.

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A moral line is to help the right side with all heart, all mind and all might. If you know any other way to make Russia get off from Ukraine besides tons of cheap weapons - I'm listening. Otherwise, weapons are a necessity.
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