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For a lot of these people the MIC is just a high paying job with decent unionization rates. If they could get similar work with similar conditions without the defense part, a lot of them would. Boeing, in my opinion, is a good example of this. Boeing Commercial isn't doing the best financially, while Boeing Space & Defense is doing great thanks to government contracts.
It's also important to remember that a lot of technology produced on the commercial side of things is used in defense, so even if that particular engineer has a change of heart and moves to the commercial side of the industry, they could be helping MIC just as much.
Manufacturing consent
Your second point is definitely something I've thought about that keeps me up at night. Obviously capital is all-encompassing so it should come at no surprise, but the fact that you will have blood on your hands no matter what is something that I can't really stomach.