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I guarantee that any engineer working on that product could get another equally well-compensated job which is not so morally bankrupt.



This argument doesn't hold up if you refer back to all engineering ethics dilemmas of the past. If all these engineers could have easily gotten another job, why did they stay? Why did Boeing engineers not speak up, why did Firestone engineers not speak up, the list continues. Not everyone has the same moral compass and that is the bottom line.


There are engineers working at Facebook.




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