It's not the same. Military enterprises are vastly different from civillian ones.

A corporation that knowingly fails to employ proper engineering tactics could end up with it's entire staff, from the CEO down to the poor schmuck who coded the thing, up on a huge string of both civil and criminal charges. It's simply not acceptable to knowingly let civillians die. That's not something corporations are allowed to do.

It's the right of the military to get their own soldiers killed however they see fit: as decoys, as cannon fodder, to distract or confuse the enemy, or in a whole host of other ways. It's not great for morale, but it's certainly something a military is allowed to do.

In the case you cite, the military decided that the risk to it's soldiers was acceptable. That same risk would not be acceptable in a civilian context; but the military is free to sell the lives of it's soldiers as richly or as cheaply as it chooses.

In reply to Re^3: Projects where people can die by Anonymous Monk
in thread Projects where people can die by cog

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