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Comment by redwoolf | Hacker News Reader

> Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

Guess that excludes everyone at Facebook and Lockheed Martin.

Seems trivial to argue that free social networks and even certain military actions are in the public interest. But that's the problem with something like this, it's just vague non-sense.

I'm no fan of Facebook or Lockheed Martin, but that doesn't seem fair to me.

Facebook is another thing entirely, but I would easily complain about Lockheed-Martin failing acting in public interest when said public interest involves development of weapons of war and supporting tools...

Everybody loves defense, though. As said in another comment: it's too vague. When even strict rules can be bent, vague rules don't mean anything.

(hit save too early): but that's thinking legally. As an inspiration, a way of seeing the world and your work, as a moral guide, it can help. And some people really should wonder if they have taken the right path.

See, I didn't say the amoral wrong thing was the defence part. But failing at it :V (whether through milking the public coffers, doing unethical things to further arms sales, etc. - making tools to defend oneself is not that morally bad)

Lockhead Martin and co is making it possible for the US and the free world to help Ukraine smash the murderous, raping war criminals of Russia.

Yes, I condemned them for supplying the military that bombed weddings and murdered journalists, and I continue to deplore that, but I was naive in thinking they weren't necessary and that they can't do good things.

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