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"They are not weapons, they are enhanced tools for war."


"All we did was fulfill a contract for a government agency" is the enterprise tech Nuremberg defense.


IBM 2024.


"Tools for special military operations". Nobody declares war anymore.


> "They are not weapons, they are enhanced tools for war."

It's really common for people to make arguments that would become completely incoherent if translated into another language. This is a fun example of one of those. The Chinese word for "weapons" is 武器, literally "war tools".

Compare "It would be illegal for soldiers to do that, but these are police, which is fine."




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