> Nice thought, except most of us are morally no better than expensive prostitutes. I don't find anything immoral about sex work, but that aside, I think one o

> Nice thought, except most of us are morally no better than expensive prostitutes. I don't find anything immoral about sex work, but that aside, I think one of the benefits of a professional organization would be to unlicense unethical actors like how doctors lose their licenses or attorneys are removed from the bar. The idea here is: - PA (prof. assoc.) says, "hey, we're not making encryption backdoors and we're not making tools to crack them available to governments and law enforcement" - PA lobbies against policies that would mandate encryption backdoors - PA lobbies for a law that says you must be licensed to distribute software at a certain scale - PA strips licenses from engineers working on encryption backdoors It's not perfect, you can probably imagine a lot of holes in it, but there are holes in everything (you can travel to a different medical regulatory regime, etc. etc.). The point isn't perfection, the point is to move society in the right direction rather than have this idiotic discussion about encryption literally every year. > Many doctors take bribe money from Big Pharma. Also some doctors do crazy stuff like recommend surgeries to fund a new swimming pool. Corruption happens, and I think it's clear humanity hasn't figured out how to deal with it. I don't think that's a reason not to organize though.