"There are lots of bad things" does not imply "all bad things are equally bad and therefore it's not worthwhile to try to prevent any of them"

This is the kind of rationalization I am referring to.

So work for mercenaries, and tell people “it’s just a job?”

Maybe there are shades of gray between black and white.

> ...he said, shovelling orphans into the crushing machine

this is the high quality content that I come to HN for

Holy false equivalency / whataboutism, Batman.