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more professions need their own version of the hippocratic oath. not for any particular ethical reason; i just think more jobs should require you to take on a specific moral code with a defining core axiom
the trolley operator's oath: if your trolley goes awry, you should always force the decision of which lives to save into someone else's hands
Software Engineers should take "don't be evil" but we all saw how that turned out. side-eyes google...
well, that's the thing: "don't be evil" is far too broad. we need something more specific, that you could create interesting narrative dramas about
What's funny is that Asimov's Three Laws would be a good place to start, considering the buffoonery of Silicon Valley in recent years.
This made me realize this is a ritual specific to an elite order consisting solely of doctors and retail workers at the really wretched chains
Does the US Postal Services' creed count, or does it only count if the people it applies to have to physically swear by it?
it's a banger of a creed, but it doesn't really work as a core moral axiom. the thing about the hippocratic oath is that it could compel you in a large variety of circumstances, e.g. the trolley problem
I believe all federal employees have to swear some sort of Oath. I had to when I worked for the Navy, and my brother did when he started working at NASA.
Front-end engineers sometimes lean on the accessibility standards laid out by W3C, but it's not quite an oath
I frequently think about the way that canadian engineers are sworn in, complete with a thumb ring (to mark draft paper as you write, and remind you of the influence of your work and the responsibility it carries)
also kipling is an enemy but the Hymn of Breaking Strain, the poem he wrote for engineers to recite at the ceremony goes hard: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm
