true, but then you would end up having no morals about what you would and wouldnt do.
Yes – this is the problem, I agree. There has to be a scale of immorality (rather than yes/no) because otherwise you end up saying that Hitler was only as responsible as the 17 year old conscript, which is obviously bollocks.
But an employee of Kyocera (for instance) slagging off an employee of BAT as some sort of evil deathmerchant is missing the point about how business works – if you don’t work for BAT, you probably sell photocopiers to them (as it were).
I would be unlikely to accept a job with a tobacco company, but I have done consultancy work for them (for my employer) in the past. So…
Edit: the point being that you can’t get into some morality arms race about tobacco companies’ behaviour: either illegalize what is wrong, or just expect them to get on with it.