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Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.
by strig 7y ago
Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.
- meddlepal 7y agoSo "just following orders"?
- threeseed 7y agoWhat the hell is wrong with you ? Nazi soldiers killed innocent men, women and children en masse. The association with engineers who have done nothing unethical is really inappropriate and unnecessary.
- weego 7y agoSo in your opinion if someome works on the infrastructure for surveillance capitalism that doesn't amount to tacit approval of the model?
- InterestBazinga 7y agoI feel like this is an intricate argument. Why are german soldiers held in a negative light even though the war decisions were by its commanders?
- itake 7y agoThey aren't held in a negative light... After the war, they were forgiven and I think society in general has accepted that they were just following orders. The leaders definitely thought in a negative light.
- lxw 7y agoThis is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders