[hrktb]

There was recently the John Oliver show about death penalty, where physicists couldn’t cooperate in death penalty settings as it was against their pledge.

The result was not that nothing was done, but instead medical substances are used by non medical staff, doing unethical operations.

I think the same basically happens in the software industry: some of us have a pledge, but it just means little to nothing as anyone can replace us on the iffy parts, and we still build libraries that benefit any use.

It also reminds me of the “don’t use for evil” bit in the json license, where IBM kindly requested a special license to do whatever it wants with it.

[quacked]

Did you mean "physicians"?

[hrktb]

Thanks for the catch, yes I meant physician.