> Gun and cigarette manufacturers do not sell their products with > malice. Right. Even though there might be a market for cigarettes that kill people immediately (good for your boss) or guns that blow up when you press the trigger (offer them for sale secretly right outside prisons to the folks who just got out), nobody sells them. Gun manufacturers sell products that perform a morally-neutral function, killing a person. Cigarette manufacturers sell a product that provides people a benefit they want with a risk they're willing to take. Malicious code and exploit code, on the other hand, is more like a cigarette that kills you instantly or a gun that blows up when you squeeze the trigger. They're interesting to talk about and look at, but there is no moral application for them. That doesn't mean it's automatically immorral to create malicious code. But it does mean that your analogy is severely flawed. DS
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