[subjectHarold]

This is the Nuremburg defence. Afaik, it does not hold in modern court (in fact, there was a law to this effect as far back as Babylonia).

So if you work at Facebook, and you do something illegal you are personally liable. And personally: I completely agree.

It suggests a total lack of morals if you do something bad because someone gave you $100k or whatever. The above principle holds even in the army where you could reasonably be executed for failing to obey orders...that should put the "dilemma" facing Facebook engineers into perspective.