> ”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean good as in “on the side of the angels.” That is a fundamentally huge misunderstanding of ethics, confusi

> ”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean good as in “on the side of the angels.” That is a fundamentally huge misunderstanding of ethics, confusion between ethos and pathos. Ethics is about doing the right thing even if in opposition to your personal beliefs. There is nothing necessarily ethical about activities in fulfillment of a cause. This isn't the problem I most prominently see in software with regards to ethics or product quality. I far more frequently see people half-assing product quality in order to make timelines and either keep their jobs or fulfill some qualitative metric that earns a larger annual bonus.