"I know you hired me to murder the competing gang, but I thought designing a new multi-paradigm type-safe VM-driven LISP-like automatically verifyable programming language would be much better use of the money".
I've got a make a living somehow, and keeping programmers out of the murder industry seems like the least I can do. If you let one in pretty soon the whole thing becomes automated and you'll just have AI-powered steamrollers turning the whole thing into an impersonal, generic experience.