Here's how this oath thing would play out: 1) New regulation forces some branches of software engineering to have some type of oath. 2) Now some software jobs

Here's how this oath thing would play out: 1) New regulation forces some branches of software engineering to have some type of oath. 2) Now some software jobs will require only oath takers to do. 3) A well payed and powerful new cast of software engineers is born. 4) They are highly paid and have a powerful lobby working for them. 5) The oath takers become very frisky and only work on jobs with minimal risk. The ones that do screw up have an armada of lawyers, because of course they have a new association with deep pockets. 6) Innovation stalls for a while. 7) Big corps start outsourcing some of the oath-taking jobs. These engineers are not bound by the same regulation. Screw ups happen, people die at some point. 8) Maybe we should have the outsourced engineers also take an oath? Back to square 1 This is exactly what I found happened for medical Doctors in Canada (don't know for US). Not saying doctors are not doing a good job, and I can't imagine the stress and pressure they operate from. But suing for malpractice in Canada can be challenging to say the least. I have personal account of a Family member who was grossly mistreated, and all the Doctor did was changed hospitals, nothing more than a slap on the wrist. https://diamondlaw.ca/blog/how-canadian-law-discourages-patients-from-suing-physicians-for-medical-malpractice https://diamondlaw.ca/blog/how-canadian-law-discourages-pati...