Reply #15: The Military Industrial Complex recruits the ones who are managebly crazy...

[hunter]

Death machine? No problem. I can build that.

Years and years ago, in the age of Saint Ronald Reagan the Witless, one of my favorite professors had quit the defense industry when he realized he was building radiation hardened electronics for the walking dead. Sure, yeah, why wouldn't the irradiated walking dead want to throw nukes at those that nuked them? Fair is fair.

He had endless nightmares about bleeding-out-of-every-orifice-out-of-their-minds military people activating the circuitry he designed.

Maybe, just maybe, he decided, he could figure out some way for all these angry people to avoid flinging neutron bombs at one another and he found himself a comfortable but lower paying academic job teaching computer science and x86 assembly language to bright young computer nerds. It was one of the most amazing engineering classes I ever took, it could have been called Pacifism 101. We even had a one-armed Purple Heart Pacifist Viet Nam Veteran. There were no women however, which is why I eventually changed my major to biology.