The intellectual core of engineering is the solution to design problems. Those solutions are embodied in artifacts – software, a bridge, elevators, and so on. An engineer who so designed artifacts as to maximize the harm they bring into the world would be unethical. Ethical considerations are internal to engineering because the introduction of each engineering artifact will produce more or less harm, no matter what the solution may be.
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Robison, W. (2010). Design Problems and Ethics. In Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (Vol. 2, pp. 205–214). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2804-4_17
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