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Comment by dajt

13 hours ago

We should not call ourselves engineers - it's a massive insult to actual professional engineers.

Speak for yourself, some of us value and incorporate both science and methodology into our craft, and adhere to a system of ethics.

  • That's great, but it doesn't make you or any of us engineers.

    Just because I drive my car with immense focus, make precision shifts, and hit the apex of all of my turns when getting onto and off of the freeway doesn't make me a race car driver.

    Engineers don't just feel good vibes about science and mix it into their work. It is the core of their work.

    Simply having a methodology absolutely is not sufficient for being an engineer.

    And great, you have an arbitrary system of ethics, like everyone does I imagine. But no one holds you to these ethics.