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Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by Tao3300 on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:41AM (#40749534)
There's a lot baked into that thought, but I wanted to extract this part:

> There’s nothing morally wrong with ... building... gambling.

Say you're building a gambling system and building that system well. What does that mean? More people use it? Those people access it more? Access it faster? Gamble more? Gamble faster?

It creates and feeds addiction.

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by slumberlust on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:59AM (#40749721)
I agree with you. It's also worth noting that this isn't unique to anything discussed here. EVERYONE has their line in the sand on a huge array of issues, and that line falls differently for a lot of people.

Environment, religion, war, medicine; everything has a personal line associated with it.

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by sneak on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:55AM (#40750275)
Lots of things create and feed addictions, including baking cookies.

Let’s not confuse the issue. Just because you find something distasteful doesn’t mean it’s bad.

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by Tao3300 on Friday June 21, 2024 @02:24PM (#40752268)
I've never seen a homeless person in Atlantic City put his fist through an oven window because the cookies didn't come out right.
Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by sneak on Saturday June 22, 2024 @06:00AM (#40757765)
I’ve seen plenty of simple-carb-addicted people die of fatness. It’s a slow and painful death.

We let adults make their own choices.

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by Tao3300 on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:27AM (#40758995)
1) I question how much choice an addict has.

2) If you were devising more efficient sugar delivery systems for those acquaintances as a means to take every last cent they had, knowing they'd be unable to resist, you're complicit in robbing and killing them.