Interviewer: Do you have any questions for us.

Candidate: Will this job require me to violate anyone's privacy.

Hold on, how about this instead.

Candidate: Will this job require me to do anything illegal.

Candidate already knows the answers to these questions. She has no need to ask.

This "the boss made me do it" defense seems to be a recurring comment on HN, perhaps from those with a guilty conscience. But is it really persuasive. It is like asking the reader have empathy for a drug dealer selling fentanyl because "he really needs the money and no one else will hire him".

"I really just want to sell marijuana but the people higher up the chain decided we should sell opiates instead."