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I knew this was going to come up because this is the internet, but I don't think this line of reasoning applies to every arbitrary Facebook engineer. The Nazi

I knew this was going to come up because this is the internet, but I don't think this line of reasoning applies to every arbitrary Facebook engineer. The Nazi soldiers tried at Nuremburg were directly murdering the Jews, and so "just following orders" led to a direct harm. However, I don't think that logic went transitive for forever; did we execute the secretaries that took phone calls in military Germany headquarters? I don't think we did, but you could argue that they helped enable all the murders. Similarly, if a person's entire job at Facebook is to contribute to Presto or React, I don't really view them as guilty as a person who worked on all the data-harvesting stuff, and way less guilty than an executive making the decisions.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>did we execute the secretaries that took phone calls in military Germany headquarters? I don't think we did, but you could argue that they helped enable all the murders Unlike military members of the SS, their secretaries didn't really have the power to send people to their deaths or perform executions.
lordnacho 5y ago
Isn't that what they are doing? There was a story not long ago about a lady in her 90s who was a secretary at a death camp at 18. She's being dragged to court.
- Symbiote 5y ago
  It's here: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-96-year-old-nazi-war-crimes-suspect-flees-ahead-trial-2021-09-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-96-year-old-nazi...