Comment by CoryG89
12 years ago
As a software engineer just about to graduate from college. When I see drawings like that I just can't believe that people who know enough to draw something like that can actually do it without feeling like they are the definition of evil.
Why is it so hard to understand that there are intelligent people that honestly believe they're doing something that will ultimately benefit their country? People have done far worse in the name of a country or ideal.
For people outraged over the apparent happiness of the people that tapped Google, I imagine they've never broken a system. A breakthrough on a project is extremely enjoyable. Finding that Google removed SSL is like testing an app and finding it doesn't sanitize inputs it passes to a shell script as root.
They still deserve to be skinned alive though. As feminists are fond of saying "intent isn't magic".
That kind of approach is just going to lead us around in a big circle, and when we look back in fifty years we'll be just where we started
It sounds like the problem there is you are conflating the mostly unrelated ideas of how much technical knowledge someone has with how much their values will align with yours.