Escape retribution perhaps, but not responsibility. If your boss tells you to put a dark pattern in the sign-up page to get more personal data, you don't have to do it. If you do, you are putting getting paid ahead of doing the right thing. If someone points out that you did the wrong thing for selfish reasons, they are right, and "I was just doing what I was told" is no defense.
It's not selfish if you have a stronger need to keep the job for a non-selfish reason, and therefore you need to keep a good enough working relationship with the boss, by doing what they ask.
An example of a non-selfish reason to keep the job anyway would be you having a job being essential to the wellbeing of people you care for. Food, shelter, medicine etc. In some situations, someone might die if you refuse to do as told at work, because your income and benefits are paying for their surgery or something.
There's going to be a ethical line beyond which "no" is the right answer, but for many people "put a dark pattern in the sign-up page" doesn't cross the line into selfishness, it only crosses into an ethical dilemma, a balancing act.
