A Perspective: IT Ethics

Moral development explains the development of moral reasoning. For IT professionals like me it guides us in how to decide in a right way. It helps to maintain my ability to analyze every details of the importance of Information Technology and how to create a perfect program. It gives you idea on how to handle time management and how to sequence your time in making schedule and by arranging it step by step to your work and to your needs in life. It talks about personality on how you may judge that surrounds you likewise in a certain situation through the actions of every person and to yourself. It talks about psychological perspectives, it helps us how to develop ourselves to be responsible in a every situation. For example an old lady is trying to cross the street with you, instead of helping her; you just walk by and ignore the old lady. In this given situation We people are aware of what is happening around us but we just pretending to be blind.


In fact one of the maybe the most, elementary of moral principles is that of universality, that is, If something's right for me, it's right for you; if it's wrong for you, it's wrong for me. Any moral code that is even worth looking at has that at its core somehow. But that principle is overwhelmingly disregarded all the time. If you want to run through examples we can easily do it. Take, say, George W. Bush, since he happens to be president. If you apply the standards that we applied to Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, he'd be hanged. Is it an even conceivable possibility? It's not even discussable. Because we don't apply to ourselves the principles we apply to others. There's a lot of talk about 'terror' and how awful it is. Whose terror? Our terror against them? I mean, is that considered reprehensible? No, it's considered highly moral; it's considered self-defense. Now, their terror against us, that's awful, and terrible. But, to try to rise to the level of becoming a minimal moral agent, and just entering into the domain of moral discourse is very difficult. Because that means accepting the principle of universality. And you can experiment for yourself and see how often that's accepted, either in personal or political life. Very rarely. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_development#Psychological_perspectives)