[ThrowawayTestr]

If there isn't a possibility of someone dying if you make a mistake it isn't engineering.

[linguae]

Software used in medical devices, airplanes, and other applications where mistakes can lead to death does exist, and there has been tragic examples of software bugs killing people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[ThrowawayTestr]

The people that write the software for such things are engineers.

[inimino]

If you have full expectation and support from your superiors that you may shut down software development operations for ethical reasons based on your technical expertise, you might be a real engineer.

[teaearlgraycold]

Welcome to the real world, where software can get people killed.

[ThrowawayTestr]

Have you ever written such software?

[tester756]

because?

[ruko]

why