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Daniel · 9 answers · 4y

Should scientists and engineers be held accountable for the deaths of the weapons they created?

Not only weapons. Journalists that spread misinformation, CEOs that are accomplices of slave labour usage, advertises that sells bad junk, programmers that make the surveillance capitalism work.
The people must have responsibility and be responsibilized.

Not really responsibility lies in the instrument's holder. U can use a pen to write a beautiful song or stab ur brother in the throat with it😅

Not in my opinion. It's ultimately the people that use it to kill others. Otherwise you might as well blame the assembly line workers at a car factory for vehicular homicides. On a side note, did you know Italy once prosecuted geologists for failing to predict an earthquake?

Maybe you can make a moral case but not a legal one, they do not make decisions on how and why they are used

Should a soldier using those weapons be held accountable for using it and killing people? Or the commander who orders them to do so? Or the government who sends the commanders out to order this?

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