To completely stop doing tech professionally, or to ignore everything, to build up thick skin, and say "it's up to other people how my inventions are used." I'

To completely stop doing tech professionally, or to ignore everything, to build up thick skin, and say "it's up to other people how my inventions are used." I'm curious to what you think is the fundamental nature of science and engineering. Is science only intellectual curiosity just for the sake of it?