How does this software impact people? Its users? Its stakeholders? Its maintainers, current and future? Society? Especially the most vulnerable?
Yes, coders have a part in all of these questions above! We are often the first to see crucial details, often the first to have a sense of the •reality• of the whole system (as opposed to our wishful imaginings of it). There is no such thing as “just coding;” all actions have consequences.