I'd prefer that engineers and scientists made opinionated decisions to work on technology that sustains a free, egalitarian society than just blindly being a cog in whatever machine they work in, and allowing whatever happens to just happen.
But I also recognize that the universe is bigger than me, and I'm not so self-assured as to believe that its impact on me isn't as big or bigger than my impact on it.
I think that you can decline to work on bombs and torture and machine learning unto psychological manipulation, etc. but also at the same time have faith that the emergence of the internet is something natural whose essence is good and beautiful and true.
