Comment by strogonoff
5 months ago
It might have been a bit of wishful thinking.
Put it this way: sometimes a licensed engineer, who can lose the license for shoddy engineering, is paid to say “no”. Say “yes”, lose your license, no longer get paid.
While there is no licensing in our industry, we can (should?) have our personal standards play a similar role.
That's the role of a professional standards organization: to protect the public.
If that doesn't exist, you don't have protection for yourself, you only have your own ethics. It's more important, and also more dangerous.