Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes
by ddalex on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:25AM
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I think your analogy misses the point that a core scope of engineering is reducing cost. Firing a weapon in a crowded area is not a scope of anybody, bar terrorists. If Bob would be a humanitarian terrorist, him firing the gun in a crowded area and not hitting anyone would be a great outcome for him, even if he didn't hit anybody just by chance.
Re:FAA Finds New Risk on 737 Max, Orders Boeing to Make Changes
by ordu on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:17PM
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> a core scope of engineering is reducing cost.
A core scope of engineering is to make technologies to make life of people better without killing them. To reduce cost is a one of instrumental goals helping business to do more than it might have done without it.
To risk someone's life is a very bad idea, even if it increases profits.
Suppose Bob fires a gun into a crowded area and happens not to hit anyone. I didn't hurt anyone! It's my right as a consequentialist!"
Bob still goes to prison.
Beyond that, engineering is about using a principled approach, by definition. Throwing something together ad-hoc and finding that it happens to work, is not what is meant by 'engineering'.