Manufacturing weapons for sale should be a taboo profession like undertaker or executioner. You should have to paint your door black or something and your daughters can't get married IDK. SOMETHING

@futurebird

Like I’m sorry undertaker is a honorable profession. I hope the mortal soul is gone after we die, but I want my loved ones remains treated with dignity, and even if not I don’t want human remains dumped in waterways.

@MCDuncanLab

I bring up undertaker because there are still some taboos about that profession. Because they work with the dead.

... seems like manufacturing the dead ought to be a bigger deal.

@futurebird

Without a doubt, manufacturing death, sorry, and destruction should be the lowest of professions.

@MCDuncanLab

I've been looking at how much of this stuff makes up the US economy and it's kind of one of our biggest exports. It's not just that the US is well armed and spends a lot on war, it's a whole industry and so you have an economic incentive to have wars even if no one understands what they are about anymore. The only people who are benefiting from whatever they are doing in Iran are the people replacing all the missiles we used up.

@MCDuncanLab

Those missiles are technological wonders, we could make something else though.

How do you get there?