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Don't speak for us all. Just because something is difficult to quantify doesn't mean that it's not worth talking about and studying.

While I agree that the fields of sociology and psychology have real flaws, implying that we'd be better off if everyone in those fields were flipping burgers is absurd.

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It's nothing more than a stereotype, of course, but I know very few who got into engineering "for the philosophy", especially outside of software.

That's why everything engineer course has an ethics section, although the business majors probably need one the most.

The major accreditation organizations such as AACSB and ACBSP require that business majors cover ethics, either as a specific course or integrated throughout the curriculum.

"Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy."

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