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An engineer is just a distinction to separate practitioners from people who develop the actual science that engineers depend on. For example, do American engineers who work on food or cosmetics have safety or quality mechanisms? Food and cosmetics are things applied to the body, and thus have a more direct relationship to biological safety or harm. Using science is not the reason why people should face regulations. Some engineers work on legos. Other engineers work for the armed forces.

The Crowdstrike incident is worth billions and people may have died. If you look to the engineer you won't be able to recover billions. Hospitals must absolutely be on the hook as they are the direct interface to their customers; hospitals in turn can sue Crowdstrike.

An event worth billions must have billions in liability in order to prevent perverse incentives. Otherwise hospitals will just say "well McKinsey said it was a good bet, so what gives?"