1. Has information technology created any new ethical opportunities?
Yes, information technology has created ethical opportunities. One of such is Sweetie created by Terre des Hommes Netherlands. It is used by the organization to notify the public about how frequently the children in rural countries are being victimized. The group claimed that it has turned over the identities of the perpetrators willing to pay for sex with Sweetie over to the law.
Consider each of the “candidate ethical principles” presented in lecture to determine. Does this ethical principle allow, or prohibit, the use of Sweetie? Why or why not?
Golden Rule supports the use of sweetie. This rule is all about the fairness involved in the decision making. Because when we put ourselves in the shoes of the children and their families they are definitely under a big disadvantage. So when we consider ourselves as an object of the decision it is fair to think that usage of sweetie will be much benefitted for the children’s sake. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative: This rule about the question: when everyone supports a fair decision could the organization survive? We can’t use a person as a means to fulfill our work. If everyone supports the use of sweetie the culprits can be held in front of justice. Use of sweetie might be contradicting it as we are using it to do the work. Descartes’ Rule of Change: This rule is about even though an action taken may bring little change which may be acceptable now but if repeated it may bring in unacceptable changes when taken in a long run. So usage of sweetie is something that should be taken repeatedly for the benefit of the children. There are some people who think they should try once and stop with that, so if there are people who think that doing it repeatedly is unethical doing it once is also unethical. So it support the use of sweetie which helps in identifying and catching them Utilitarian Principle: Taking an action which achieves a greater value i.e. Take an action that gives greatest happiness for the maximum number of people affected. So usage of sweetie helps in saving a high number of children who are facing sex abuse through public chat rooms, adult webcam sites and social networking sites. Risk Aversion Principle: It is about taking an action which produces least harm ie. Some tasks have high failure costs and very low success probability. But in this case usage of sweetie has proved to be a very high benefit. It has been seen that sweetie has attracted more than 20,000 sexual predators from 71 different countries who asked for sex performances. It helped in identifying them. Ethical “No Free Lunch” Rule: This rule explains that if someone else has created something that is useful to us, it is to be assumed that the creator wants compensation for his work. But in this case the usage of sweetie is being benefitted by the children who are facing sex abuse, we can’t expect them to compensate for what the sweetie is doing for them. 2. a. Describe Kant’s categorical imperative with the construction we used in this class. Kant’s utilitarian principle states that we can’t use a moral agent to achieve a means to an end, a moral agent to Kant is a rational human being with certain intellectual capability. …show more content…
Take the case of ones employees, you can’t compel them to do something else or extra other than what they are supposed to do. One of the example mentioned in the class is we should never hire certain someone because they might be able to fulfill our own personal goals. We have to treat them as agents who are worthy of consideration not as means to our goals. One can’t enslave people in order to optimize their profit. Another example mentioned is, a professor doing a treaty with the students that if they will be able to deliver something in a particular amount of time he/she will give an A. Here the students are not actually getting an A actually through their academic performance but the professor is using students to fulfill his/her requirement of showcasing perfect academic criteria in his/her own record. b. Does the use of online tracking violate this construction of Kant's categorical imperative? c.
Yes, information technology has created ethical opportunities. One of such is Sweetie created by Terre des Hommes Netherlands. It is used by the organization to notify the public about how frequently the children in rural countries are being victimized. The group claimed that it has turned over the identities of the perpetrators willing to pay for sex with Sweetie over to the law.
Consider each of the “candidate ethical principles” presented in lecture to determine. Does this ethical principle allow, or prohibit, the use of Sweetie? Why or why not?
Golden Rule supports the use of sweetie. This rule is all about the fairness involved in the decision making. Because when we put ourselves in the shoes of the children and their families they are definitely under a big disadvantage. So when we consider ourselves as an object of the decision it is fair to think that usage of sweetie will be much benefitted for the children’s sake. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative: This rule about the question: when everyone supports a fair decision could the organization survive? We can’t use a person as a means to fulfill our work. If everyone supports the use of sweetie the culprits can be held in front of justice. Use of sweetie might be contradicting it as we are using it to do the work. Descartes’ Rule of Change: This rule is about even though an action taken may bring little change which may be acceptable now but if repeated it may bring in unacceptable changes when taken in a long run. So usage of sweetie is something that should be taken repeatedly for the benefit of the children. There are some people who think they should try once and stop with that, so if there are people who think that doing it repeatedly is unethical doing it once is also unethical. So it support the use of sweetie which helps in identifying and catching them Utilitarian Principle: Taking an action which achieves a greater value i.e. Take an action that gives greatest happiness for the maximum number of people affected. So usage of sweetie helps in saving a high number of children who are facing sex abuse through public chat rooms, adult webcam sites and social networking sites. Risk Aversion Principle: It is about taking an action which produces least harm ie. Some tasks have high failure costs and very low success probability. But in this case usage of sweetie has proved to be a very high benefit. It has been seen that sweetie has attracted more than 20,000 sexual predators from 71 different countries who asked for sex performances. It helped in identifying them. Ethical “No Free Lunch” Rule: This rule explains that if someone else has created something that is useful to us, it is to be assumed that the creator wants compensation for his work. But in this case the usage of sweetie is being benefitted by the children who are facing sex abuse, we can’t expect them to compensate for what the sweetie is doing for them. 2. a. Describe Kant’s categorical imperative with the construction we used in this class. Kant’s utilitarian principle states that we can’t use a moral agent to achieve a means to an end, a moral agent to Kant is a rational human being with certain intellectual capability. …show more content…
Take the case of ones employees, you can’t compel them to do something else or extra other than what they are supposed to do. One of the example mentioned in the class is we should never hire certain someone because they might be able to fulfill our own personal goals. We have to treat them as agents who are worthy of consideration not as means to our goals. One can’t enslave people in order to optimize their profit. Another example mentioned is, a professor doing a treaty with the students that if they will be able to deliver something in a particular amount of time he/she will give an A. Here the students are not actually getting an A actually through their academic performance but the professor is using students to fulfill his/her requirement of showcasing perfect academic criteria in his/her own record. b. Does the use of online tracking violate this construction of Kant's categorical imperative? c.