“I solve practical problems. Like where all the necessary holes should be on passenger aircraft, and when they should appear.”
“I solve practical problems. Like where all the necessary holes should be on passenger aircraft, and when they should appear.”
Oo what a tough and morally pure person you are, you would simply prevent everyone from dying if you were in their position. You don’t sound any less ridiculous than a keyboard warrior saying if you were in Nazi Germany you would’ve just joined the resistance xD just admit you don’t know jack shit about what you’re talking about (or provide some credentials that you’re an engineer, then maybe I’d take you slightly seriously)
“If I refuse to build a deathtrap, they’ll just get someone else to do it, so I might as well get paid to murder people.”
That’s your fucking concept of ethics? Really?
And you go ahead and bring up nazi Germany. It disturbs me that you’re also basically saying “well, we all know that most people totally will just go along with sanctioned murder.” Maybe it’s true, but I’m condemning that truth. You’re just accepting it. Almost cheering it.
My dude, the basic standard for humanity IS supposed to be “no, I won’t participate in murder.” I don’t have to build a time machine to condemn people who went along with the fucking nazis and I don’t have to show you an engineering degree to say that ENGINEERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR UPHOLDING THE BASIC ETHICS OF THEIR PROFESSION.
Yes, I will demand ethical behavior. I WILL judge anyone who fails to uphold the most basic and simple ethical principles. I will not just throw my hands up and say “whattayagonnado? It was the corpos that killed all those people. Don’t even worry about it, engineer guy. You probably did your best, as far as I know.”
Fuck that attitude. Like I said, the CEOs can’t design the fucking aircraft themselves. If all the engineers refuse to make deathtraps, then there won’t be deathtraps. Once again, it’s called fucking responsibility. No two ways about it.
EDIT: It is MESSED UP that I’m this many replies deep into this conversation, and I’m not seeing anyone chiming in to say “yeah, I’m an engineer, and I do think we have a responsibility to uphold basic ethics.”
Instead, I’m just getting downvoted and casually insulted by edgelords, who think they “kn0w H0w teH r3al w0Rld w3rks”
Professional ethics and standards are a thing. I am categorically NOT the weirdo, here. Can an engineer PLEASE back me up, on this?
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