This is the real world, in the USA, your particular city, in software engineering, software security. Sure, it's still very commendable that you would do that,

This is the real world, in the USA, your particular city, in software engineering, software security. Sure, it's still very commendable that you would do that, I can at the same time easily imagine other contexts where such actions would not have much of an effect and that's where the skepticism of the parent poster comes from.