Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by logicchains on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:45AM (#24105635)

> Ethics and law are orthogonal, so thankfully this is generally much easier than being a legal expert.

I suspect a lot of philosophers would disagree with you that ethics is much simpler than interpreting laws.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by dark_light on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:22AM (#24107191)

Philosophers would also make a distinction between being ethical and being an ethics expert.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by wizzwizz4 on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:53AM (#24107746)

You can derive most ethics in a couple of decades, plus everyday experience. Try deriving the law from that.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by ClumsyPilot on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:53AM (#24108708)

Thats because it's a couple of decades of dealing with ethics. If you everyday life actually involved dealing with law, you would get good at it

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