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> Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest. Guess that excludes everyone at Facebook and Lockheed Martin.
by redwoolf 4y ago
> Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
Guess that excludes everyone at Facebook and Lockheed Martin.
- thekashifmalik 4y agoI'm no fan of Facebook or Lockheed Martin, but that doesn't seem fair to me.
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- p_l 4y agoFacebook is another thing entirely, but I would easily complain about Lockheed-Martin failing acting in public interest when said public interest involves development of weapons of war and supporting tools...
- tgv 4y agoEverybody loves defense, though. As said in another comment: it's too vague. When even strict rules can be bent, vague rules don't mean anything. (hit save too early): but that's thinking legally. As an inspiration, a way of seeing the world and your work, as a moral guide, it can help. And some people really should wonder if they have taken the right path.
- p_l 4y agoSee, I didn't say the amoral wrong thing was the defence part. But failing at it :V (whether through milking the public coffers, doing unethical things to further arms sales, etc. - making tools to defend oneself is not that morally bad)
- waynesonfire 4y ago
- arsome 4y agoSeems trivial to argue that free social networks and even certain military actions are in the public interest. But that's the problem with something like this, it's just vague non-sense.
- tomjen3 4y agoLockhead Martin and co is making it possible for the US and the free world to help Ukraine smash the murderous, raping war criminals of Russia. Yes, I condemned them for supplying the military that bombed weddings and murdered journalists, and I continue to deplore that, but I was naive in thinking they weren't necessary and that they can't do good things.