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If your argument is that employees are not responsible for the results of their work - not legally accountable, but morally responsible - I strongly disagree wi

If your argument is that employees are not responsible for the results of their work - not legally accountable, but morally responsible - I strongly disagree with this. You are always morally responsible for the results of your actions. Always. There may be mitigating circumstances - you need health care for your child’s chronic medical condition, you were faced with an impossible choice and chose the lesser evil, someone literally held a gun to your head - in which case the full moral picture may absolve you, but you still performed the actions that led to the outcomes in question, and you are still responsible for your actions and their consequences.

TZubiri 2y ago
That is yet a third separate question. Let's recap: 1- Are software developers (whether a company as a whole, or an indepent developer) responsible for the software they develop? 2- When a company develops software, is the responsibility on the company owners, the managers, or the employees or all in shared manner? 3- What is the moral responsibility and what is the legal responsibility in what way are they similar in what way are they different? At this point I'd forego the hopes of getting an answer and just focus on trying to make clear questions.
- roughly 2y ago
  You’re putting in a lot of effort to avoid actually answering any of these questions. I’m sorry if your work leads you to not want those answers. You bear moral responsibility for the outcomes of your actions, whether you do them on your own time or while acting as the agent of a company. You do not get to “transfer” moral responsibility. Soldiers are responsible for their conduct, employees for theirs. And, the overlap between legal and moral responsibility is that legal responsibility sometimes aligns with moral responsibility, but that’s irrelevant for the discussion of the moral. And to cut off the obvious question of “whose morality” - yours. You are accountable to whatever moral system you prefer to live by, but you are always accountable for your actions and their consequences, even when that’s uncomfortable or you’d prefer not to be. We don’t get days off from being human.
  - TZubiri 2y ago
    You are arguing with a windmill I've never expressed the opinion you assign to me 1- yes 2- i don't know, it depends 3- different for sure, legally it's split in civil and criminal. Morally speaking it's all mostly blabla unless you can assign it to a specific moral ethos like catholic morals. Fun fact the etymology of morals is customs, as in what is usually done by the people.

TZubiri 2y ago

That is yet a third separate question. Let's recap: 1- Are software developers (whether a company as a whole, or an indepent developer) responsible for the software they develop? 2- When a company develops software, is the responsibility on the company owners, the managers, or the employees or all in shared manner? 3- What is the moral responsibility and what is the legal responsibility in what way are they similar in what way are they different? At this point I'd forego the hopes of getting an answer and just focus on trying to make clear questions.

roughly 2y ago
You’re putting in a lot of effort to avoid actually answering any of these questions. I’m sorry if your work leads you to not want those answers. You bear moral responsibility for the outcomes of your actions, whether you do them on your own time or while acting as the agent of a company. You do not get to “transfer” moral responsibility. Soldiers are responsible for their conduct, employees for theirs. And, the overlap between legal and moral responsibility is that legal responsibility sometimes aligns with moral responsibility, but that’s irrelevant for the discussion of the moral. And to cut off the obvious question of “whose morality” - yours. You are accountable to whatever moral system you prefer to live by, but you are always accountable for your actions and their consequences, even when that’s uncomfortable or you’d prefer not to be. We don’t get days off from being human.
- TZubiri 2y ago
  You are arguing with a windmill I've never expressed the opinion you assign to me 1- yes 2- i don't know, it depends 3- different for sure, legally it's split in civil and criminal. Morally speaking it's all mostly blabla unless you can assign it to a specific moral ethos like catholic morals. Fun fact the etymology of morals is customs, as in what is usually done by the people.