Reading1-Reasons, Relativity, and Responsibility in Computer Ethics
Reasons, Relativity, and Responsibility in Computer Ethics
James H. Moor’s article was a sort of tangible source in terms of computer ethics. His article mainly talks about the ethical impacts of computing globally and the revolution of computer with connection to the moral principles of computing technology.
In our new era, high technology was globally spreading. Communications have been easier. We are beyond the level of the revolution of computer technology which rapidly spreading globally and greatly affects our daily lives. Computers are distinct technologies which raises some special ethical issues.  Moor’s article discusses about computers as different from other technology and how it differs in ethical considerations. He illustrated computer ethics as an emerging field which was both rationally interesting and massively important. On his article, computer ethics is the analysis of the nature and social impacts of computer technology and the corresponding formulation and justification of policies for the ethical use of such technology. He believed that the views of Routine Ethics and Cultural Relativism are incorrect when used to characterized computer ethics. Computers are logically malleable and also informally enriching. Although computing was highly significant there was some disagreement about the nature of computer ethics.  He uses the concepts of money, war, privacy and copyright as an examples of informational enrichment which has non ethical values and morally valued ethics. Computer technology was used in the article since it broadly includes computers and associated technology. Additionally, it includes concerns about software’s, hardware’s and concern about networks connecting computers and the computer itself. Computers provide us with new capabilities and these in turn give us new choices for action. A central task of computer ethics is to determine what we should do in such cases, like how to formulate policies to guide our actions in a moral way. Of course, some ethical situations confront us as individuals and some as a society. A typical problem in computer ethics arises because there is a policy about how computer technology should be used. An analysis is needed in such cases which provides a coherent conceptual framework within which to formulate a policy for action. Conceptual framework is indeed keen for understanding ethical problems involving computer technology. Computer ethics is dynamic, a compound field of study and is not a fixed set of rules which considers the relationships among facts, policies and values with regard to constantly changing computer technology. Computer ethics was mainly about the nature of computer technology and our values. Although computer ethics is a field between science and ethics, it is also a discipline in its own right which provides both conceptualizations for understanding and policies for using computer technology.
The domain of computer ethics is quite large and extends to issues which affect all of us. Ethical responsibility begins by taking the ethical point of view and to engage in ongoing conceptual analysis and policy justification with regards to the revolutionary computer technology. Respecting others and their core value must be taken first. Avoiding harmful policies may be a good start. Analogies are very useful in resolving disagreement between policies. Those resolutions could help form consensus about acceptable policies. Even acceptable policies have some residue of disagreement but it is not to be feared. Computer ethics includes consideration of both personal and social policies for the ethical use of computer technology. It is a computing technology itself and that what makes computer ethics different as a field of ethics. As computer technology gradually engulfs globally, it is important that computer ethics must be addressed and be taken into consideration.
