No, a humanities education won't turn you into an empathetic citizen with consideration for fellow humans if you aren't already one. Worse, it often turns corrupt individuals into great performers, talkers, and larper of social justice.
At best, a humanities education teaches us corrupt humans where to draw the line between rational and ethical self-interest and being considered a vile human being by the majority. That's it. It only helps you draw a safe line to tread. It doesn't change you as a person.
It lets us know what we've historically seen as bad behavior and maybe even makes us better at playing the game so as to not get caught, while perpetuating the same selfishness and cruelty. Maybe even profit from it better. There's no dearth of grifters in the social sciences.
Just understand humans and you will realize no one is better when it comes to ethics, nor is it in our capacity to change our fellow humans. We are naturally corrupt and driven by self-interest. Only that with a STEM education, you can at least facilitate some material change.
There is no society outside of you. You are the society, just in a different set of clothing. Change yourself first. Don't force others to change while you remain the same self-serving, hypocritical and dihonest scum of the earth.
To study humanities is to study your own mind. To study how selfish humankind is and how our fear of death and dissolution perpetuates the same cruel behavior, albeit somewhat lesser in degree but still sharing the very same nature of the evil tyrant and the brutish barbarian.
Blessed with the same powers and freedom of choice, you'd probably be no different than the people you think of as evil and greedy.
Personally, I think this entire discussion of engineers studying the humanities is pointless. All the good engineers I know are avid readers of philosophy and they have a natural interest in how humans work. Don't need to set up indoctrination camps run by charlatans for that.
Imagine thinking books and professors can teach someone basic decency, compassion, and dignity. That's like saying a book can teach one how to walk or how to develop common sense.
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