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I don't see why engineers should be particularly responsible. I don't see how any work could be done without everything from entrepreneurial or financial, legal

• olliej 8y ago
  If you know you’re writing software that is directly used to violate basic human rights why wouldn’t you be? Does doing it because you’re told to remove your complicity? (Hint: Nuremberg trials found plenty of guards at concentration camps guilty). To you question on janitors, you’re right - there is clearly a point where there should be a cut off - does a person empty trash cans have they same culpability (or any) as the engineer who is writing software designed to support mass incarceration on the basis of race or religion? I would argue no - much like I would argue that if an engineer making software to identify terrorists would not be. But once that engineer discovers “terrorist” now just means “Muslim” or what have you, then continued work would mean culpability.