I don't think these two ideas are as opposed as you're implying. They're describing two different perspectives on the same process. To wit: 1. Individuals have

I don't think these two ideas are as opposed as you're implying. They're describing two different perspectives on the same process. To wit: 1. Individuals have values and ethics that they'll make a reasonable effort to comply with. Society recognizes this and rewards and punishes individuals for the ethical bent of the projects they are clearly responsible for. 2. As the size and complexity of a project grows responsibility becomes diffuse until there's no single individual to hold responsible for any given decision. Once this happens the informal, personalized ethical safeguards begin to break down. 3. Once the informal individual scale safeguards have dissolved they usually can't be rebuilt. Instead they need to be replaced with formal safeguard mechanisms that operate at the project scale.