LETTER: A question of ethics.(Letter to the editor)

I failed to understand what point beyond the blindingly obvious was being made by Stuart Parkinson (Viewpoint, 10 April) in his call to engineers to consider the ethical dimension to their work.

It seems to me to go without saying that anyone involved in something that they know for a fact is unethical has to ask themselves some hard questions.

But that goes for anyone in any walk of life. If an accountant is doing the books for a company that he knows is involved in criminal activities then he obviously has to decide whether to alert the authorities or become part of a criminal conspiracy himself. If on the other hand he thinks the company is behaving …