zlacker

>>pabs3+(OP)
Do you know what puzzles me most? How can software engineers work on something like this? Don't those paid engineers or involved ones have the balls or dignity to walk away? I'm just wondering how they would feel about this (if they feel anything at all). I mean, if I'd be in such a position and asked to push something like this I'd have walked away on the spot, no matter what you offer me. No one at Google is standing up against this? I really hope that if this ever sees the light of the day, somehow in the end this backfires badly on them.

>>liendo+Ba
For a while I worked at a company that did arguably worse things than Google does. Regardless of dignity and courage it's hard to just "walk away" from a paycheck when you have mouths to feed, a mortgage to pay, a family who gets sick and needs medical care, pets, hobbies, whatever. There's also the fact that for most of us work is a huge percentage of our time and our social lives can be deeply intertwined with our work lives--it can be a tough decision to walk away from all your colleagues and friends who you enjoy working with even if you don't particularly enjoy the work itself (sometimes shared hardships and commiseration can make those bonds even tougher to break).

Expecting engineers to die on this hill for us seems incredibly unfair. To balk at someone not upturning their life and (under the US healthcare system at least) endangering the health and well-being of themselves and their families in the name of dignity or morality when the net result of doing so would be exactly zero because Google can replace them in a heartbeat is, in my opinion, a gross and unnecessary misdirection of blame.