Reading: Professional ethics

Read the following.

• Wikipedia articles on following ethical models
  • Social contract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
  • Deontology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics
  • Consequentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
  • Utilitarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
  • Virtue ethics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics
  • Justice as fairness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice
• Code 2018 Task Force. 2018. 2018 ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct: Draft 3. Available online at https://ethics.acm.org/2018-code-draft-3/.

For the journal send an email message to me titled “CSC 322.01 2018S Journal on Professional ethics (Your Name)” (without the quotation marks) and with answers to the following questions.

1. We would not need so many ethical models if any one of them was perfect. Identify a (reasonable) potential flaw in each model. (The flaw may be from the perspective of a follower of the other models.)

2. Which model or models seem best suited to our work as computer scientists? Why?

3. What most surprised you about the Draft ACM Code of Ethics? Why?