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>isn't there a pretty big difference between a "moral compromise" and a modal to entice a potential customer to buy?

well the difference is that you've used more fancy words in the second description. Reminds me of the joke

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."




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