Right, thanks for the proper information. I guess you need to go pretty far into our past to get to a tailed ancestor, quick google says its 25-30myam, pre-hominid monkeys. Back scratcher manufacturers aren't going out of business anytime soon.
A cool device. Seems like its completely autonomous. Seeing as we used to have tails in our evolutionary past, I wonder if this could be fitted like a myoelectric prosthesis around the coccyx or something and function like a biological tail.
'I am the flail of god. Had you not comitted great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.'
Considering how total the destruction was that the Mongols visited on the conquered, it is almost believable. And likewise, them not invading Europe was considered to be divine intervention.
The Mongols believed the world was meant to be theirs, by divine right. Saying No to a Mongol when he asks you for something (eg your land or daughter) was considered a religious offense.
Which also applies to everyone else. The programmer job security just makes that easier in most cases.
Which is not really my point as to why they should be held responsible. The reason is the real world consequences of their actions and the scale and ease of introducing negative consequences by tech creators.
Even if they did keep that paperwork, they should be punished alongside the manager who asked them to do it. They knew it was unethical and did it anyway. They should have refused. Risk of being fired is not as big of a problem for a programmer as it is for almost anyone else.
FYI the most expensive cheese in the world comes from a certain kind of donkey. I only know this because I am a moose enthusiast, their cheese being the second most expensive.
If someone is wondering why: much of Siberian land is difficult to develop due to permafrost. 65% of Russian territory, which comes up to 11.1 km2, is permafrost. Almost all of it is owned by the state/military and they probably couldn't give less of a fuck about any negative consequences.
There absolutely are provable results, you make observations, conslusions, you must show how those are linked with logic. "Is X ethical" is just one of milions of possible questions in the class of sciences called humanities, of which ethics are just a small subset. However, when doing any research including interacting with live humans, you must understably prove ethical conduct.
You're wrong, concentrating on just STEM leads to media illiteracy. I would even say it's highly conductive in breeding bigotry. Studying the humanities is essential in understanding the human condition, as well as making sense of the mass of information and cultural heirtage everyone finds themselves in.
If you would like to spend some time with non-agressive moose, completely tame individuals who love to be scratched or given a potato, I recommend visiting The Moose Garden in Sweden. Last time I was there they planned to also provide accomodation together with the baby moose in their separate private enclosures, as living with them is a part of taming process. The best time to visit is in late spring, as their skin produces an oil which smells like fabric softener. You cannot visit at all during mating season obviously. This is not an ad Im just a happy visitor.
From one side you are correct and entitled to be able to do that. From another, and IANAPsychologist, I doubt the psychological effect of trying to emotionally isolate yourself from people you spend most of your time with is positive.