Thats interesting, are you saying there are serious people who claim that the wrongness of theft depends on the emotional frame (and havent been paid by russia over the last decades with the intention to subvert western society?)
Yes. If you use e. g. numerical libraries, and wonder what really does this algo do often you look at C. If you dig too deep then you look at fortran though...
Isnt the stereotype 'deutsche Gruendlichkeit' which is not efficiancy but thoroughness, which just mean that a few thousand pages need to be filled out, signed and countersigned for the 400 mill order.
Are you ever proven wrong as the questioner. The original method consist of extending the argument so far that at some point some contradiction will show up. Instead of blaming it on the extension then one claims victory and that the original statement was wrong.
I think currently no other country is even close to the level of autonomous weapon systems the US is developing. An arms race where you are miles ahead cannot be used as a reason why you have tonrun faster.
Does the company praise programmer A whose programs run without error, or programmer B whose code crashes in production at night, but the 'hero' (B) is coming in at midnight and fixes it?
A lot of management will praise B (good job, you saved our a..); creating a very very wrong perception.