On reflection there was something missing from my perspective here, which is that taking any action based on principles depends on pragmatic considerations, like if you leave are there better alternatives? How much power do you really have? I think I don’t fault someone who thinks this through and decides that something is wrong but there’s no real way to do anything about it. I do think you should try to maintain some sense of what is wrong and what the right direction would be, look out for ways to push in that direction. E.g. working at a lab but maintaining some sense of “this is how much of a chance it looks like pause activism would need before I’d quite and endorse a pause”.
On reflection there was something missing from my perspective here, which is that taking any action based on principles depends on pragmatic considerations, like if you leave are there better alternatives? How much power do you really have? I think I don’t fault someone who thinks this through and decides that something is wrong but there’s no real way to do anything about it. I do think you should try to maintain some sense of what is wrong and what the right direction would be, look out for ways to push in that direction. E.g. working at a lab but maintaining some sense of “this is how much of a chance it looks like pause activism would need before I’d quite and endorse a pause”.
I think it’s somewhat blameworthy to not think about these questions at all though