alt Hacker Newsconsequences like delicensing, and civil or criminal liability, are all significantly financial.
the ethical objectives are supported by disincentives, offsetting the financial incentives to misbehave.
and none of that exists in software engineering (yet).
While I do think there needs to be regulation of some sort for SWEs, I can't fathom how it'd be enforced. Non-coders can use replit to build whatever they want and sell it to whomever they want. That kind of scale doesn't exist in the physical world.