> When there are few professional consequences for unethical behavior at the behest of your employer, taking an ethical stand is ineffective and quixotic. You will be fired and another engineer will likely complete the job.
Well quitting a job as a concentration camp gas chamber constructor may merely slow down the operation a bit, but that could mean more lives saved until VE day arrives.
That assumes your job has a very low bus factor. Presuming a company of the scale required for a state to need its assistance, your absence (and that of however many people there are who agree with you) likely won't slow down the operation at all.
Well quitting a job as a concentration camp gas chamber constructor may merely slow down the operation a bit, but that could mean more lives saved until VE day arrives.
And yes I did just make that metaphor.