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Ugh this is naive and silly, I'm sorry, we build things, we are not the arbiters of public interest, and the public interest is not something we as individual s
by Meph504 4y ago
Ugh this is naive and silly, I'm sorry, we build things, we are not the arbiters of public interest, and the public interest is not something we as individual should have the authority or expectation of judging.
I've always thought the notion of trying to place the morality of systems and the software we create in the hands of the builders is a farce. That falls on those who have it built.
- agilob 4y ago> Ugh this is naive and silly, I'm sorry, we build things, we are not the arbiters of public interest, and the public interest is not something we as individual should have the authority or expectation of judging. Until that time the Volkswagen programmer was put in prison before any manager or executive...
- Meph504 4y agoYeah because some creed of ethics would have changed that? Did they need a code of ethics to know what they was doing was shady, no. Would that code of ethics be used in a court of law to show that their crime was more egregious had they or the industry adopted it, probably. Will some code of ethics stop management from demanding shady things, and will it stop people from doing it, history says no. So what would be the positive aspect of agreeing to this?