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meddlepal

Engineers are special innocent snowflakes that would never do a bad thing?

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Well they generally aren't responsible for the strategic decisions of the company.

But nobody said they are somehow immune from doing bad things. So nice strawman.

Engineers on the ground developing technologies generally aren't responsible for overarching business decisions, no.

I feel like this is an intricate argument.

Why are german soldiers held in a negative light even though the war decisions were by its commanders?

They aren't held in a negative light... After the war, they were forgiven and I think society in general has accepted that they were just following orders. The leaders definitely thought in a negative light.

This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

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