@samir questions like this get a lot easier to answer once one has concluded that software is fundamentally a harmful activity.
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@kosure moral software development? Def no! Ethical software development? Absolutely! In my opinion, it all depends on the culture of the company/team/project you’re working with/on. @Asnabel on the one hand, to a first approximation no humans have much choice about engaging with software, so i'd say no it's more like i'm trapped in a matrix of evil by forces vastly beyond my control. on the other hand, it's actually much worse than that: i work on software _for making software_ for a living, so really i'm deeply entangled in the operating machinery of said matrix and too constrained by my own past choices and fundamental cowardice to extricate myself in any meaningful way. |
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Huh?