> When doctors or nurses use their knowledge of anatomy in order to torture or conduct medical experiments on helpless subjects, we are rightly outraged. Why do

> When doctors or nurses use their knowledge of anatomy in order to torture or conduct medical experiments on helpless subjects, we are rightly outraged. Why doesn't society seem to apply the same standards to engineers? I think the difference we draw between the two is that an engineer builds things that can be used for many purposes (defense or offense for example) and we as a society generally agree with one of those two uses. When a doctor abuses their knowledge to cause pain they are the ones making a choice we disagree with. Anyways, yes engineers should think about how their work can (and will) be used but I think it's disingenuous to compare them to patient torturing doctors.