All right, thank you all for coming out. This is my second time at MIT. I don't know if any of you was here last time when I spoke a little bit about money.

I am a moral theologian, which means I basically study ethics from a theological perspective, how to behave, why people behave, the way they behave, the rules and ideas of the church that support those rules. My specialization is

just war theory, and it's not like mere or merely war theory. It means justified or justifiable

war, right, ethical war, which I'm sure some of you might strike you as autamoronic. So I'm talking about the just war theory.

That's where I'll start.

And how it relates to thinking through some questions that might arise for those of you who are basically, you know, pursuing engineering.

Or the kinds of occupations that would be associated with working with the Department of Defense

or with companies who do business with the Department of Defense and so on.

But I'm not going to approach this by making some sort of a priori claim.

For instance, that it would always be immoral to pursue an occupation

or to work with the Department of Defense and so on. I'll explain why I'm

not doing that. Generally speaking, I don't find that very helpful. I long ago abandoned that practice

as a moral theologian of just moralizing, telling people how to behave. Instead, I try to

understand things and sort of think through frameworks of questioning and

by the, you know, those frameworks try to narrow down or focus questions in ways that might be helpful

to people.

I'm not avoiding that because it's impossible to do that with regard to certain kinds of industries or professions.

And when I wrote my little outline and I made that point, I mean, I wrote that there are some

professions that one should never get involved with. And the timing of this couldn't be better.

I wrote down human trafficking and prostitution. Some of you may have heard today about Robert Kraft, right, the owner of your hometown team.

Right.

There are certain kinds of professions that are simply bad, simply wrong, simply evil.

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