Ben is assigned by his employer to improve an ultrasonic range$-$finding device. While working on the improvement, he recognizes that a novel modification of the equipment might be applicable to military submarines, which, if successful, could be worth a lot of money to his employer. However Ben is a pacifist, a person who opposes war of any kind, and does not want to be involved in military work. So he does not develop the idea himself or mention it to anybody else in the company. He has signed an agreement that all inventions he produces on the job are the property of the company bu does not believe the agreement is relevant to this situation.

Whether the military innovation would be worth much to Ben's employer is:

an application issue

a conceptual issue

a moral issue

a factual issue