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0 pointsastura7y ago0 comments

By his logic you shouldn't do that either just replace "your boss" with "your customers."

"don't start a business because if you do then your customers might eventually ask you to do something (that's legal) that you disagree with."

Except his argument is even sillier, because he's actually arguing that "might eventually" is actually "inevitably." That it's just inevitable that DARPA funded cancer research naturally turns into building cruise missiles.

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watwut7y ago

You can refuse customer. You can not breach already written contract.

asturaOP7y ago

If nobody's buying what you're selling, then you have no business.

watwut7y ago

That still allows you to refuse fair amount of customers. Because here, the condition is "most or all potential customers want exclusively things you don't want to do" which may happen, but is significantly less likely.

TeMPOraL7y ago

But then you're trading money for morality directly. For most businesses, customers are to some extent fungible, so you can afford to be a little picky if you're careful about the health of your company.

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watwut7y ago

You can refuse customer. You can not breach already written contract.

asturaOP7y ago

If nobody's buying what you're selling, then you have no business.

watwut7y ago

TeMPOraL7y ago

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