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https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/response/on-our-first-ethics-in-computing-discussion/ CSC 105, Spring 2019 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/response/on-our-first-ethics-in-computing-discussion/#comment-70 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:38:42 +0000 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/?p=631#comment-70 Like Zaria, I also found some of the wording of the ideal values of the ‘computing professional’ to be a bit vague and subjective. I can see ethics boards also as a solution to this ambiguity, but can’t help feeling that defining the word ‘respect’ would help clarify acceptable behavior. I think this addition and further explication of various terms used would probably make the document in itself stronger and preclude the need for lengthy investigations into ethics violations. Overall, the code could benefit from a bit more explicit information.
However, this would also make the code a lot longer and almost certainly more diffuse. An overly complex code is not ideal either. In short, I guess a balance of ambiguity and explicit explanation would be ideal.
On another idea, I also wondered about how people decide which ethical framework is most appropriate given a particular situation like Zaria did. It seems to me that all the frameworks inherently lead to different decisions, so the choice of framework really does dictate the outcome. This difference adds another level of subjectivity to the ethics discussion, in addition to the subjectivity in the code. In short, I suppose this means ethics in itself is kind of subjective, which makes sense given the different sets of values and experiences that different people can have. But to challenge that I would say there are certain things that I hope everyone would agree on in terms of acceptable ethical behavior.

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