...of government...is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence...of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize." The American people should never take for granted the “Collective and individual happiness” and they should watch for, and take every measure at their disposal to protect these liberties from threats both from within, and outside the United States. Washington encouraged a strong infrastructure for the Union “Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole” Washington foresaw the importance of a common government and unified laws, that would encourage commercial enterprise and trade between the different geographical areas of the country. The North had manufacturing and the capacity and resources to move goods by water. The South in return had agricultural products to sell or trade for needed industrial products. Washington did not leave out the importance of Ideals and Principals in George Washington’s Farewell Address 2 expansion to the West....
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...adfh JIS S e c 3 (1 ) 2 0 0 7 Journal of Inform ation System Security w w w.jissec.o rg Ethics and Morality - a business opportunity for the Amoral? Ian O. Angell Professor of Information Systems Information Systems Department London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom Preamble It is common for speakers at computer security conferences to tell audiences that 'they should do' this, and 'should do' that. The word 'should' is regularly thrown about as some jumbled-up mixture of efficiency and ethics, without any justification of the imperative. This paper will concentrate on the ethical issues, and so it will quickly dispose of 'efficiency,' leaving detailed argument for another time. Then, taking the devil's advocate position, it will focus on demolishing the certainty behind the ethical obligation, by questioning the role of ethics in society in general, but specifically in computer security. Indeed this paper will claim that an unsuspected morality and ritual lies behind many real-world security choices and much so-called 'objective' academic analysis. Furthermore, it will propose that such moralistic positions are highly problematic, and that all recommendations phrased in terms of virtue rather than pragmatism be treated as highly suspect. This polemical paper formed the basis of a keynote address given at the 5th Computer Security Conference, held in Las Vegas on the 20th-21st April 2006. 4 Angell, JISSec ...
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...classic bildungsroman novel, was applauded for its unique perspective on women and its explicit symbolism and literary devices (Brontë i-iii). In a simultaneous similarity and contrast, McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a critical and commercial success, providing an alternative to literary explicitism with minimalist text, instead implicating much of the novel’s portrayals of relationships, personalities, and descriptions in liberal usage of implicit language. Even the main characters, despite all having underlying values and personalities, are compressed into three separate archetypes more commonly found in folklore than in comparable modern stories (Cooper). Ultimately, like Brontë, McCarthy masterly weaves such elements into a coming-of-age story for the main character, but instead of the realization of happiness, the main character instead faces defeat with the realization of the changing of the...
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...Assignment #4 Ingrid Victorero 1. What are public order crimes, and how are they different from violent and property crimes? Explain how moral entrepreneurship affects the public perception of morality and thus the creation of new "public order crimes." Answer: Public order crimes are crimes against the public consensus of morality. Sometimes public order crimes are called victimless crimes, as there is no clear victim that can be identified. A crime against the public order is quite different than a crime against a person. Violent and property crimes are a direct victimization against a person. The victim has been affected by violence and the act has caused a loss of something of value. Moral entrepreneurs can be individuals or may belong to a group, or formal organization that takes on the responsibility of persuading society to develop or to enforce new rules that are consistent with its own ardently held moral beliefs. They tend to be rule creators by crusading for the passage of rules, laws, and policies against behaviors they find abhorrent or as rule enforcers by administering and implementing them. Although these are different and distinct roles, the effect of moral entrepreneurship, according to Howard Becker who coined the term, is the formation of a new class of outsiders whose behavior now violates these newly minted regulations and therefore is subject to the degrading label of “deviant.” 2. Why are public order crimes called "victimless...
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...adfh JIS S e c 3 (1 ) 2 0 0 7 Journal of Inform ation System Security w w w.jissec.o rg Ethics and Morality - a business opportunity for the Amoral? Ian O. Angell Professor of Information Systems Information Systems Department London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom Preamble It is common for speakers at computer security conferences to tell audiences that 'they should do' this, and 'should do' that. The word 'should' is regularly thrown about as some jumbled-up mixture of efficiency and ethics, without any justification of the imperative. This paper will concentrate on the ethical issues, and so it will quickly dispose of 'efficiency,' leaving detailed argument for another time. Then, taking the devil's advocate position, it will focus on demolishing the certainty behind the ethical obligation, by questioning the role of ethics in society in general, but specifically in computer security. Indeed this paper will claim that an unsuspected morality and ritual lies behind many real-world security choices and much so-called 'objective' academic analysis. Furthermore, it will propose that such moralistic positions are highly problematic, and that all recommendations phrased in terms of virtue rather than pragmatism be treated as highly suspect. This polemical paper formed the basis of a keynote address given at the 5th Computer Security Conference, held in Las Vegas on the 20th-21st April 2006. 4 Angell, JISSec adfh The quest for efficiency, where...
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...warming, overpopulated cities, growing hunger and poverty will tear apart the very foundation of civilization. Disorder and war such as the world has never seen will sweep across the face of this planet. Though what exactly constitutes moral decay is debatable, one group traditionally has been singled out for criticism, namely young people, particularly the youthful challengers to the establishment. The difference in generational conduct has almost always been seen as threatening to tradition, and this view has been accentuated in our lifetime by the segregated status of the young from the old, and the growth of a commercial youth culture. Peer group pressure is much stronger on today's teenagers than it was in earlier times, if only because young people remain in school and do not usually enter the workplace in any serious way until much later in life. To me, morality means giving of one's self, putting aside our self interests for the common good of all. However, if in fact such things as honor, courtesy, pride, respect, sacrifice, courage, dedication, commitment, loyalty, honesty, perseverance, integrity, and professionalism, are adjectives of the past, then we are indeed witnessing the moral decay of our society. Actually, it's rather remarkable we have progressed as far as we have as a species, but it makes you wonder how much farther we would be if we had the moral fortitude to overcome greed, corruption, and other vices. As Samuel Clemens correctly observed, "Man is the...
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...THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL The Philippines is facing again a very serious issue that affects moral values and its culture. This is really a very serious issue and could really change the life of every Filipino, Issue pertaining to Reproductive Health Bill. Many Filipinos are very naive about this and most probably has no idea of what possible effects that could destroy our true Filipino morality with the concern of reproduction and sex. Religious groups and organizations opposed this bill, and so with the few concervative Filipinos, but for those whose minds were twisted by only on politics and business, they thought that to reduce poverty is through population control. Believing that the country's resources can now be segregated evenly to the country's population. Later in our discussion we will talk about the future effects of this bill. Here is a very strong opposing statement to the Bill by one of the top politicians in the country, Francisco S. Tatad - "THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH bill in the House of Representatives is being presented as a health bill and an antipoverty bill at the same time. It is neither. It is not what its authors say it is; it is everything they say it is not. It is an ideological attack on human life, the family, and our social and cultural values. The bill rests on a flawed premise; it is unnecessary, unconstitutional, oppressive of religious belief and destructive of public morals and family values. Its enactment into law...
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...specifications, but ridiculously low price and a different while similar brand name, such as aPhone, lPhone. It then speedily became popular throughout the whole mainland China. Later the phenomenon stretched out to more industries and fields, such as shoes, cloths, backpacks, autos etc. Even faster, copycatting has shaped a new innovation culture and starts to have a commercial impact on the market. At the same time, it has become a controversial topic throughout the whole world. Critics and arguments spring up from people in developed countries like America and Europe. They keep complaining and criticizing that existence of copycats dramatically damages their protection of intellectual property rights. They claim that it is an unethical effrontery. It is true that some copycatting products may have some issues on intellectual property, but this is mainly because the legal system and environment of China is still very weak while compared to developed countries. Since different countries have different rules in intellectual property protection area, it’s hard to come up a fair legal discussion. However, in the view of morality, I wouldn’t agree at all that copycats are not ethical. Although these copycatting products have similar appearances with those genuine ones, they...
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...General Zaroff lives for the hunt just as Rainsford, he is quite a skilled hunter perhaps even better. Many would easily say without a second thought the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," written by Richard Connell, is either completely commercial or completely literary. However, considering the emphasis on philosophy, logic vs reason, danger, and fear one can see the classic is a combination of both. "The Most Dangerous Game" could most certainly be read solely for entertainment purposes due to its constant plot twists making this story a commercial fiction. All throughout this short story suspense plays a huge roll in making this commercial. Suspense can be seen the first morning of the game, "The generals' eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring" (23). The suspense in this moment is off the charts. Rainsford is laying in a tree praying he isn't spotted, and as the general slowly glances up the tree he stops right before he notices him and smiles. Readers love moments of extreme suspense, it has the readers on the edge of their seat per say. Try to imagine being Rainsfords shoes at this moment, a cat and mouse game is being played with life. When people put themselves in the characters position, they see the situation in a whole different way because its not someone else anymore, its them. Try it here, imagine being Rainsford in this moment, "The baying of the hounds drew nearer,...
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...able to pick up a few good lessons. The story revolves around the life of three gentlemen namely Nick Hendricks, Kurt Buckman, and Dale Arbus. It started when they were able to create a product which is a car wash inspired shower head, the “Shower Buddy”. After capturing the attention of well-known investors who are Bert Hanson, they had a compromise that instead of Mr. Hanson’s company producing their product, Mr. Hanson will provide them a loan to put up a warehouse and the three men in return, will produce 100,000 units of shower buddies for the former. This scenario portrayed the importance of belief in one’s self. Producing something that has not yet been introduced to the public is a talent and skill of being innovative. I admire the three men’s choice of not agreeing to sell their product but to stick with their plan of being the ones to put up their own business. I find this scenario somewhat the same with the previous film being shown in the classroom. On the day Nick, Kurt, and Dale presented their product to Mr. Hanson, he immediately denied them saying that he will be cancelling his order. He only did this so that the three men could not pay the loan thereby resulting to an auction in the “Shower Buddy” products at a lower price. This kind of thinking by Mr. Hanson is relative to the theory on ethics about Egoism. It is an epitome of a man’s selfishness. Also, it can be related to Relativism. The morality of Mr. Hanson was affected by the norm that can be observed in...
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...Whose Job is Famine Relief? PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning December 12, 2012 Everyday on television one will view several commercials about giving to another country, to help the starving children. When Peter Singer wrote his article in 1971“Famine, Affluence and Morality” he was able to give a disastrous review of what readers may ordinarily think about different things such as charity and famine relief and if it is moral. Why is there so much famine around the world? Some put blame on lack of food and shelter with no medical care. Others believe that if there was a population control put in place that this perhaps would solve the issue of famine, with as long as these severely poor countries are still giving birth to children, famine becomes a vicious circle. Is it really the obligations of those who live in wealthier countries to support those in other countries? Should these countries make sure their own people are taken care of first? This is the argument that Mr. Singer presents in his paper. One has the moral obligation is to help others in need whether it be a cup of coffee or assisting in drilling a well for water and no matter if they are next door or across the world. With three different premises and a conclusion Singer argues for relief. The first of the three premises is understood when Singer said “that suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad” (Singer, 1972, pg. 231). The next of these three premises...
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...Animals used to have a life worth living, however it is not true anymore; under ill treatment and unjust views, animals are nothing more than tools for the benefit of our society. In this paper, I will analyze Regan’s work on ‘The Case for Animal Rights’ and focus on how it approaches the deontological view of Kant, duty. First, Tom Regan, Professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University believes there is flaw in our treatment of animals and that it “is wrong because we violate the rights of animals.” (Regan) Factory farming is an example of how animals are just mere existence of our resources. Regan’s goals on animals rights include banning the use of animal in science, factory farming, commercial and sport industry. Basically,...
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...Alewives and brewsters were women who brewed alcohol in their households, usually in rural areas. Most of these women were married, and did the work by themselves. However, it was during the 1400s to the 1500s that there was a shift in production, for how alcohol was being made, to who it was being made by. After the the Black Death, commercial brewing became a popular means of creating alcohol in a more demanding urban market. Among other things, they also demanded food and drink, but what they all had in common was that it was now being produced by men. Smaller breweries were being upscaled by higher end commercial breweries, and the commercial authorities excluded women from all of these places. Thus, what began to take place was a newly formed culture of misogyny, former alewives and brewsters were portrayed with negative traits, such as being dishonest, immoral, and unhygienic. While these images remained, new forms of alcohol began to arise which meant that in some places women were still the main...
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...become increasingly precise, lethal, and in the coming decades, some systems will have, “Effective Autonomy,” ("Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap" page 106). That means they will be able to largely control themselves and react to their environment. However, aside from the military applications, drones have many other uses and are becoming an increasingly valued technology. The drones themselves are diverse and not synonymous to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, as they can also be terrestrial or marine in their capabilities. Drones could be the future of warfare, or perhaps they will aide in the commercial industry and science. A mystery of the coming years and decades will be how drones will be used. If one scans the current and projected data on drones, it becomes evident that they will have many diverse applications and effects on society, from the military, to science, and even commercial industries. There are many existing uses for drones in the military and they are only likely to increase. In the past several years, drone strikes have been used to kill thousands of people worldwide (Whitlock, "Drone Strikes Killing More Civilians than U.S. Admits, Human Rights Groups Say"). Their uses today are mainly in aviation for scouting and carrying out strikes. However, the use of military drones is expanding to include unmanned terrestrial and even marine vehicles ("Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap"). The increasing use of drones in the military poses many difficult questions...
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...God, at great risks. In this light this paper seek to discourse the element of ethical thinking and use values-based decision making to address a case study involving an ethical Dilemma within the subject of Pornography. The paper will attempt to argue and compare the perspective of the Christian worldview with assumptions of the secular worldview. Ethical Dilemma The ethical dilemma involves an addict of pornography called Joe. Joe likes watching porn for the purpose of sexual stimulation. He enjoys masturbating behind closed door. This act never fees wrong to Joe. He justifies innocence though believing that no one gets harm. However, this changes when he reads reports regarding the injustice done through forced commercial sexual exploitation of victims of human trafficking, most of who are young girls and women. He discovers that through visiting these porn sites, he is promoting the very unjust businesses and people behind. Owing to the addiction, his ethical dilemma in this context is whether to harm himself through withdrawal symptoms, in efforts to discredit the injustice, or continues taking pleasures at the expense of other human’s mysteries. Core Beliefs...
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