> It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

-- Nathaniel Borenstein

It's the parents of those working for the arms factory's fault. Without their actions there wouldn't be a bomb drop.

That is of course a far stretch, but I would argue that your argument is too. Non-complicit workers might have just lost their jobs and would have been replaced with complicit ones and the bomb would still be dropped.

For this to make sense I think it's important to look at the distribution of power really. Considering the power of the people who order the bombs and factory workers not really having a leaver I don't think their actions make a difference.

If every civilian didn't pay his taxes, the bomb order couldn't be funded. Non-proximal moral causality breaks down pretty fast when there are alternate non-evil uses of resources.

We were just following orders!