re: #193 cenotaphium

Seemed to make sense. If you want to exchange it for a persecution complex token, you’re welcome.

As I understand it, the inscriptions in question have been part of the company’s products from it’s inception, put there at the insistence of their founder, long before military contracts started rolling in. I would bet that every product they’ve made bears them - including the ones sent to the military for evaluation prior to bid acceptance.

That no one noticed until now isn’t particularly surprising. They’re small, unobtrusive and easily mistaken for a serial or part number.

The government can, of course, request a design modification in the contract - to eliminate the inscriptions. And most manufacturers would happily comply, even if it involved an existing contract, because such modifications involve extra payments and customer goodwill. Going forward, the government can insert such clauses into future contracts; when this one comes up for re-bid, I imagine it will contain such a clause. Then it will be up to the company to decide whether it wants to go along.

But at present, I just can’t get very excited about this either way.

As far as the reaction of those we’re shooting at is concerned, I really don’t care. We’re shooting at them, after all. And if they don’t find something about our guns to be outraged over, they’ll find something about our dress or our food or our speech or our cartoons to fume over. It’s the nature of an enemy to do such things. And the ten seconds worth of consideration given the matter in this paragraph is really all it requires.