In response to the above-titled paper by M. Markel (see ibid., vol.36, no.2, p.81-6, June 1993), which clarified the philosophical issues that accompany the ethical aspects of the engineering profession, the commenter attempts to take the basis for ethics another step.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>