Every software engineer I’ve worked with has had a strong sense of personal values and ethics, but the organizations we work for can take actions that are at od

Every software engineer I’ve worked with has had a strong sense of personal values and ethics, but the organizations we work for can take actions that are at odds with these. Do they though? I've noticed a trend where the strength of some developers' beliefs are proportional to how unethical the products they're paid to build are. This makes me suspect that for many people, the ethical stance they take is a coping mechanism for excusing their own actions with the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense.