> Yes/no/whatever. Someone else would've created something similar eventually. Same with the Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. I don't think this reasoning work

> Yes/no/whatever. Someone else would've created something similar eventually. Same with the Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. I don't think this reasoning works. A few years ago I turned down a job at an MLM after digging through their mandated public filings and determining that almost everyone who worked with them ended up underwater. More recently I turned down a very well paying job in a financial investment company after reflecting on the fact that they didn't produce anything, or provide any services and instead took a (lower paying) job writing software for hospitals/medical clinics. They basically existed to leach of the market. My point is that I think if you build something knowing full well how it will be used, you carry a certain amount of responsibility when it is indeed used that way. You don't get to absolve yourself of responsibility because someone else is doing the has their hand on the trigger/button. You wired that trigger/button knowing what it was for. "Someone else would do it anyway" could be used to justify anything. To go full Goodwin it could be used to justify "just following orders" under the Nazis. After all someone else would've done it anyway.