Computer Ethics

1. Discuss how adherents of ethical egoism and altruism could analyze the following situation:
Case 1:
Roger plans to buy licensed software in the US using his royalties from the sales of his book on computer ethics and donate the software to her alma mater.
Ethical Egoism:
In Roger's ethical egoism he ought to do what is its own self interest which is to buy a licensed software using his own royalties and donate it to his alma mater.
Ethical Altruism:
But under his Ethical Altruism is it really his obligations to purchase this license software and donate it in order to benefit his Alma matter? But rather it his own self interest that he will donate a license software for his alma mater

Case 2:
Bamba debugged a secret code of the NBI that allowed her to access all computer systems if the agency. She plans to sabotage the whole system as a form of revenge to she considered to be the NBI's violation of human rights

Ethical Egoism:
The Ethical Egoism of Bamba that is to debug a secret code of the NBI to access all the computers as the form of her revenge to the organization is her interest in doing so but it is also unethical to debug a secret code and sabotage an organization by the form of revenge.
Ethical Altruism:
Bamba has her moral obligation and has swear to the organizations ought that to serve the organization and as I believe that each individual employee understands the organizations vision mission goals and more importantly the core values to achieve the goal of the organization. Bamba's act to sabotage the NBI is unethical, immoral and unlawful to the society’s standards that would not help, serve and benefit others.

Case 3:
Marjo wants to create a computer virus that would affect only laptop operations.

Ethical Egoism:
Marjo ethical egoism which deals with creating computer virus that would affect only laptop operation is only his self interest in doing so maybe so that he will be acknowledge, to gain popularity or maybe just for fun.

Ethical Altruism:
Under Marjo's ethical altruism will Marjo's computer virus able to help, serve, and benefit others and is it his moral obligation to produce this computer virus? This action of creating a computer virus that would only affect or damage only laptop operations is harmful to people who uses laptops and rather will not help them or even they will not get benefits and just causes
damages to their hardware.

2. Which among the finalist theory appeals to you most (John Stuarts, Mill's, Utilitarianism, Immanuel Kants, Categorical Imperatives and Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics)

All finalist theorist are really interesting to me, Utilitarianism which deals with the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness in bringing about the most happiness, Categorical Imperatives dealing with reasoning or rationalizing and Nicomachean Ethics which deals with virtues. But the only one that appeals to me most is that by Immanuel Kants Categorical Imperatives or moral law, "Act as if the maxim from which you act were to become through your will a universal law.". This law has its source in the autonomy of a rational being, and it is the formula for an absolutely good will. We human beings have the ability to rationalize and to know what are good or bad that would centers our moral laws.

3. Which among the theories seems to predominate in the world of computing as you know it.

For me among those finalist theories the most dominant of all when it comes to the world of computing is the by John Stuarts Utilitarianism because whether we know it is good or bad as long as we are happy of what we are doing. We all know that pornography in an illegal term is bad but more people "hooked" to it for their sexual pleasure, or even creating viruses, web hacking, or even software piracy these actions as we all know are bad but still many people does it because they are happy about it, the trends today whether we like it or not is most people like to be happy or rather than to follow the society moral laws and even his or her virtue.