I do technical work and unfortunately can't contain my Politics on social media (due to their psychology tricks). I know both Republicans and Democrats will dismiss my math because I don't belong to their side.
Even if one releases software with a license like the GPL that explicitly doesn’t constrain what the software is used for, I think one should still care about how it is used and the ethical implications of it.
But in science fields, authors names don't really matter. The same outcome will exist regardless who is studying it.
I'm curious, how much experience do you have in scientific academia? Names matter a great deal in my experience. A lot of results are simply ignored if they're not backed by a big name, and many experiments will simply not be done unless there's a big name to attract funding in the first place.