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As developments in technology push questions of ethical considerations further and further into uncharted territory, could engineers benefit from swearing a formal oath?
Reasons for signing the oath:
- 1. It lays down a clear ideal to which all engineers should aspire.
- 2. It helps to bind engineers together as a profession.
- 3. It reassures the public by giving a clear indication of how engineers are expected to act.
- 4. It helps guide the moral principles of new graduates.
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As developments in technology push questions of ethical considerations further and further into uncharted territory, could engineers benefit from swearing a formal oath?
Objections to signing the oath:
- 1. Other professions can get by perfectly well without an oath. Why do engineers need one?
- 2. Right-thinking members of society are well aware of what is right and wrong and do not require any further guidance.
- 3. Swearing the oath is one thing; adhering to it another.
- 4. It is old-fashioned and patronising.
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