Comment by megolodan
11 hours ago
I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics, but It seems thats not the case.
I wonder if it is widespread knowledge internally or if just the select few know.
11 hours ago
I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics, but It seems thats not the case.
I wonder if it is widespread knowledge internally or if just the select few know.
Why would you think that engineers have stronger ethics than the population at large? Following this logically, some profession would have to have lower than average ethics or perhaps only the unemployed do?
I don't think that one's personal moral compass and one's profession have much correlation at all. Otherwise, moral philosophy professors would be near saints. Moreover the moral philosophers at Harvard would be more ethical than those at Ohio State.
> I used to think that most engineers had strong ethics
Civil engineers maybe. Software "engineers" were never known for their strong sense of ethics.