Your responses seem to boil down to "but I believe everyone has a moral responsibility to act like an engineer." When is perfectly fine, and I agree with you.

Your responses seem to boil down to "but I believe everyone has a moral responsibility to act like an engineer." When is perfectly fine, and I agree with you. As I've said multiple times. But realize that, in the US, programmers have no such legal obligation. They also have no formally codified and enforced professional ethical obligation. Any such obligation is purely within the realm of personal ethics. Particularly obligations to the customer which go beyond or contradict with obligations to management (the latter are at least captured in the form of a contract). So your moral stance, while admirable, isn't representative of actual enforced social norms among programmers.