>As someone who works in the defense industry, I can assure you...
Defence industry is broad, though, perhaps you needed to be for security reasons. However, stating your job then saying individual people don't matter but commercial entities do may make you unfit for certain defence careers.
Well, they could be in the "all are equal, some are more equal" camp. Lives have value, but some have more value... especially "ours".
Realistically, most people aren't going to spare more than an internet comment or a weekend protest for some atrocity going on across the world, anyway. The world teaches us to compartmentalize evil in order to go on living...
Defence industry is broad, though, perhaps you needed to be for security reasons. However, stating your job then saying individual people don't matter but commercial entities do may make you unfit for certain defence careers.