"and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment." This is a very strange meaning of "ethics". I understand ethics are relating

"and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment." This is a very strange meaning of "ethics". I understand ethics are relating to what that profession does, i.e. a lawyer or priest cannot ethically divulge certain communications. By pulling in this abstract public interest, the software engineer is supposed to conform to some specific balance of environmental damage and privacy against other good things. Does this make every Facebook engineer and mining software developer unethical?