[mindslight]

I agree with the crux of your point, but commonly held engineering ethics are still compatible with building weapons that directly attack other humans. The ethics basically focus on doing right by the employer/society you're working for. And for the surveillance industry, that society is the obscenely rich elites and us plebs are all just the targets.

[musicale]

> commonly held engineering ethics are still compatible with building weapons that directly attack other humans

"Once the rockets are up, Who cares where they come down? That's not my department," Says Wernher von Braun.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44702782