> Software engineers are accountable to their bosses before their users, no matter how high minded we like to pretend to be. To say it’s on the engineer to do n

> Software engineers are accountable to their bosses before their users, no matter how high minded we like to pretend to be. To say it’s on the engineer to do no harm puts them in the tenuous position of doing the job or being replaced by someone who will. That isn’t setting us up for success. The nazi officers who committed most of the atrocities used similar arguments. "I was just following orders!" I expect better from a software engineer on hacker news. You've single handedly convinced most here - through your weak logic - that such an oath is necessary.