> It's ultimately better to be in this position as a thoughtful person aware of the consequences of your work, since they would just replace you with someone less conscionable otherwise.
No it doesn't matter, but hypocrites will keep on saying this along with other lies to avoid facing the reality, that is that they are complicit in doing whatever they don't regard as ethical or whatever.
I haven't seen many people just plain say it: "the company I work for does harm but I don't care because I get a fat paycheck every month".
If you do the same work, what does it matter?