Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers

Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by Nasrudith on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:03AM (#24107454)

Dynamite is a good example of why the philosophy is complete bullshit. How about you blame the stupid evil fuckers who started all of the futile wars to try to get rich in the quagmire that was European geopolitics instead of tbe person who made them safer?

It is the same sort of stupid blame shifting involved with the hippocratic oath for x nonsense. Oaths are majorly outmoded in the zeitgeist anyway because everyone recognizes lies are commonplace.

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Re:Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Softw... by Ygg2 on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:25AM (#24107569)

> How about you blame the stupid evil fuckers who started all of the futile wars

And I fully agree. Expecting people to individually bear the burden of "some oath", is a fool's errand.

My point was software on its own, much like a fridge, is amoral. You can use it to store your groceries, or you can use it to store corpses.

That said, there are some extreme cases (like a gun), that have very limited non-violent uses. And IMO, that should be regulated, instead of depending on people Doing The Right Thing™.

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