Software used in medical devices, airplanes, and other applications where mistakes can lead to death does exist, and there has been tragic examples of software bugs killing people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

The people that write the software for such things are engineers.

If you have full expectation and support from your superiors that you may shut down software development operations for ethical reasons based on your technical expertise, you might be a real engineer.

Welcome to the real world, where software can get people killed.

Have you ever written such software?

because?

why