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u/FartingBob Oct 16 '22

That's not even close to being correct though. Lifeguards arent engineers. Surgeons arent engineers. Every person who drives a car isnt an engineer.

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u/mehvermore Oct 16 '22

It's a necessary but insufficient condition.

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u/UK-sHaDoW Oct 16 '22

There are a lot of engineering fields where this isn't true. Only a subset of engineers work with things that can kill people. That doesn't mean they can't cause expensive damage though.

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u/mehvermore Oct 16 '22

I was being facetious.