Oh sure, you're going on the Evil/Good angle. That's fine. But let's set it aside for the moment because I will probably just agree with you on whichever stance you take, since I don't particularly care. I guess I did confuse the matter by using the words 'ethics' but I meant "not presenting your ability as far beyond what it is" so perhaps I can clarify and we can move on from that.
I'm going on the competent/incompetent angle which is orthogonal. The problem is that those guys just aren't good engineers. If they want to kill people and they're doing it, or they want to sell to ICE and they're doing it, or they want to monetize murders and they're doing it, then they're good at it. That's competence.
Aeronautics engineers, though. They want to make things fly and they fall instead. I don't think they've wanted to kill Boeing passengers, but you know, considering their skill, perhaps they did, perhaps they did. In which case, you're right, that's a field of highly competent passenger killers who we thought were incompetent passenger fliers!
Web developers writing React on the other hand? Zero people intended to be killed. Zero people killed. Billions of dollars of value. Creativity. Ability. Competence. The virtues of a real engineer. Perhaps one day other fields can emulate their techniques to understand how they do it.
I'm going on the competent/incompetent angle which is orthogonal. The problem is that those guys just aren't good engineers. If they want to kill people and they're doing it, or they want to sell to ICE and they're doing it, or they want to monetize murders and they're doing it, then they're good at it. That's competence.
Aeronautics engineers, though. They want to make things fly and they fall instead. I don't think they've wanted to kill Boeing passengers, but you know, considering their skill, perhaps they did, perhaps they did. In which case, you're right, that's a field of highly competent passenger killers who we thought were incompetent passenger fliers!
Web developers writing React on the other hand? Zero people intended to be killed. Zero people killed. Billions of dollars of value. Creativity. Ability. Competence. The virtues of a real engineer. Perhaps one day other fields can emulate their techniques to understand how they do it.