Interesting and balanced take on the issue. I'm sure every software developer has thought about this...
On a related note, I once had the flip side of this issue made dramatically clear to me. I was interviewing software engineers for a job opening in my company. One of the candidates looked pretty good, but I wasn't sure why he wanted to leave the company he was currently working for – he had a fascinating job there that seemed an ideal fit for his skills. So I asked him – and he told me that a bug in code he had written had killed a patient who was wearing one of his company's experimental insulin pumps. Now he was looking for a job were a bug couldn't possibly injure or kill someone...
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