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Re:Ask HN: Should software developers be activists? by fsflover on Monday September 28, 2020 @11:36AM (#24617762)
Everyone should actively participate in the social life and politics. Without it, the government becomes more and more corrupt, lacking checks and balances.

See also: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banalit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil

Re:Ask HN: Should software developers be activists? by rhythnic on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:31PM (#24619833)
Excellent article and entirely relevant. "One interpretation of this holds that it was not an observation about what a regular guy Adolf Eichmann seemed to be, but rather a statement about what happens when people play their “proper” roles within a system, following prescribed conduct with respect to that system, while remaining blind to the moral consequences of what the system was doing — or at least compartmentalizing and ignoring those consequences."