I just finished writing a paper answering this question and just notice that there is a philosophy section here.. George, who has just taken [received] his Ph.D. in chemistry, finds it extremely difficult to get a job. He is not very robust [strong] in health, which cuts down the number of jobs he might be able to do satisfactorily. His wife has to go out to work to keep [support] them, which itself causes a great deal of strain, since they have small children and there are severe problems about looking after them. The results of all this, especially on the children, are damaging. An older chemist, who knows about this situation, says that he can get George a decently paid job in a certain laboratory, which pursues research into chemical and biological warfare. George says that he cannot accept this, since he is opposed to chemical and biological warfare. The older man replies that he is not too keen on [happy about] it himself, come to that, but after all, George’s refusal is not going to make the job or the laboratory go away; what is more, he happens to know that if George refuses the job, it will certainly go to a contemporary of George’s who is not inhibited by any such scruples and is likely if appointed to push along the research with greater zeal [enthusiasm] than George would. Indeed, it is not merely concern for George and his family, but (to speak frankly and in confidence) some alarm about this other man’s excess of zeal, which has led the older man to offer to use his influence to get George the job… George’s wife, to whom he is deeply attached, has views (the details of which need not concern us) from which it follows that at least there is nothing particularly wrong with research into chemical and biological warfare. What should he do? what would be your answer
so long george aganist it he should get the job eventhiough his wife says there nothing wrong with it it would go aganist his principle
