[I’m sure they heard, “You just shut up and write the code. We’ll do the thinking around here.”]
Compartmentalize the system. Keep the code monkeys buried in obfuscated details so they can't see the forest. Presume that, if they ever do perceive the forest, by the time they do so they've written so much of the system they've become complicit in the crime and entangled in the spider's web.
"But I vas only following orders"
I wonder if and why that strategy ever fails?
"On my Honor, I will do my duty..."
Pesky Boy Scouts, teaching such silly ideas...