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We consider crimes against young children to be particularly bad precisely because they're genuinely blameless. Once you get past childhood, though, you're a m
by ben509 9y ago
We consider crimes against young children to be particularly bad precisely because they're genuinely blameless.
Once you get past childhood, though, you're a moral agent making choices. If you work at a company, yeah, you are in a small part contributing to their actions and by continuing to work there, assenting to those actions.
After all, a random Googler lunching in the cafeteria wants the prestige associated with all the good things Google does, that's got to come with some measure of blame for the bad things Google does. You can't have it both ways.
- anxrn 9y agoSo, wanting to work at a reputed place for software engineering == endorsing every single policy the company (a collection of over 70K individuals) might adopt? To the point that you should be expected to take a bullet for it?