Developers are not a homogeneous, interchangeable collective of identical twins.
Amid a population of millions of developers, a marginal fraction will always be jobless and hungry, enough to compromise in favor of their own survival.
But why only question the ethics of developers, who may contribute to projects so compartmentalized, that they do not know what their dual-use module might contribute to?
There are industrial designers, marketing executives, product specialists and project managers in the loop. Faceless investors demand profits from commoditized businesses, without questioning how profits are generated.
When non-essential technology is created by an amoral collective, ethics are left unreconciled by default.
Please question that, instead.
