While that may be true, people who were just “following orders” still need to be held to account.
Tyrannical things happen when people simply follow orders and negate responsibility for their roles in society.
It's too easy to scapegoat the people with the least power and the least culpability with this attitude.
Sorry, my contract is with the corporation, not society.
If you are a member of a professional organisation, there will normally be some professional ethics rules which, if broken, will lose you your licence to work as a professional. Software developers don't have that yet, but civil engineers certainly do. As do lawyers, accountants and other professionals.
I absolutely agree with you. Living in the last stages of the Wild Digital West right now.
We should get rules like that for our industry, I agree.
I want this so terribly right now. You have no idea.
Everyone has a contract with society. That’s exactly what society is!
Society doesn't need a contract to hold you responsible for your actions.
Your jail sentence on the other hand is handed out by society.