Reminds me of the opening line of Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World:
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.
He goes on:
Today, industrial design has put murder on a mass-production basis. By designing criminally unsafe automobiles that kill or maim nearly one million people around the world each year, by creating whole new species of permanent garbage to clutter up the landscape, and by choosing materials and processes that pollute the air we breath, designers have become a dangerous breed.
Regardless of whether you agree with it or not (I don’t… I think), it’s provocative.