Module 3: Preliminary Theories
SAQ 3-1
B. Discuss how adherents of ethical egoism and altruism would analyze the following situations. Support your answer.
A. How would you classify the moral issues in computing enumerated below?
MG - Morally Good
MB - Morally Bad
MGB - Morally Good and Bad under certain circumstances
CASE 1: Roger
Roger feels proud when anybody impressed him. He wants to be acknowledge as wise in a sense that people believed impossible things is realized with him and incidentally people benefited from his egoistic attitude leading the detection of enemy code easy.

CASE 2: Perla
Perla motivated to object of desire feels her comfortable to be well-recognized in her Alma Matter and co-incident that the school benefited from her egoistic attitude in a sense that licensed software is available in the school free of charge.

CASE 3: Marjo
Marjo has egoistic motivation that destroys laptop credibility and promote machine other than laptop. His selfish motive will be an opportunity from the competing company against laptop.

CASE 4: Baba
Baba motivated to object of aversion who fells comfortable by vindicating he NBI for violating her human rights. By nature, NBI works with invasion of private information to create most accurate report. In the case of sabotage, the agency loses the trust from its people.

CASE 5: Tikya and John-john
Tikya and John-john are motivated to object of desire. They are still egoistic despite of very cheap demand in a sense that they saw recognition from people.
MGB (1) software piracy
- morally bad to that community where the software originated since intellectual property stole where as a community who pirated the software will be morally good in a sense that suffering a high cost for development is free.

MGB (2) pornography on the Net
- morally bad in a sense of malice. Think a world that young and adult audiences watching human sex in the street. The same is true in the internet, street or could in the church. Morally good, who sales pornography.

MGB  (3) creation of worms and computer viruses
- morally bad to who own the computer since paying an effort will be done to normalized the system and opportunity to who created the worms or viruses.

MGB (4) infringement of intellectual property rights
- The same is true with the explanation number 1.

MGB  (5) violation of privacy
- Have you received message from unknown sender? This is in effect of invasion of privacy. You consider morally bad since the message is sarcastic to you and because of the opportunity, morally good to who sent you the message.

MGB (6) Plagiarism
- The same is true with the explanation number 1.

MGB (7) Spamming
- The same is true with the explanation number 5.

MGB (8) Hacking
- The same is true with the explanation number 5.

MGB (9) Computer Abuse
- My viewpoint of any crimes of computing with preliminary theories is morally bad and good under certain circumstances because the basis to be moral is relative to individual.

MGB (10) Computer Crimes in general
- Please refer my explanation to number 9.
Animated Design of Razel Gil Patalinghug
UP Open University
Master in Information System
IS201 Computer Ethics