Intro to Ethics

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# .eight[CSET 170:]
## .eight[Security and Professional Ethics]

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# Intro to Ethics

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# Agenda

1. [ ] Classical Ethics
2. [ ] Trolley Problem
3. [ ] Programmer Ethics
4. [ ] What Would You Do?

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# What is Ethics?

Also known as .eight[Moral Philosophy], it is a branch of philosophy that deals with the concepts of right and wrong.

From the Greek word .eight[êthos] meaning "character."

Ethics is separate from legality, tradition, and religious belief.

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# What is Ethics?

Officially started with discussions of Socrates in the 400s BC:

## .center[.eight["The unexamined life is not worth living."]]

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# What is Ethics?

Schools of thought:

- [Virtue Ethics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics)
- [Stoicism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism)
- [Hedonism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism)
- [Consequentialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism)
- [Utilitarianism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism)
- [Deontological Ethics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics)

and a [heck of a lot more...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_ethics#Branches)

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# The Trolley Problem

You see a runaway trolley headed towards five people tied up on the tracks. You are by the lever that can switch the trolley to another track, but there is a single person tied up on this track. You have two options:

1. Do nothing and allow the trolley to kill five people?
2. Pull the lever and kill one person?

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# [The Good Place: A Simulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWb_svTrcOg)

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# Variants of the Trolley Problem

- The Friend
- The Fat Man
- The Fat Villain
- The Transplant

[Wikipedia: The Trolley Problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)

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# [Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics](https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-question-of-programming-ethics/)

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# What are Programming Ethics?

Now we are getting into .eight[Applied Ethics], taking the philosophy and applying it to our real-world, real-consequence, every day actions.

- Business Ethics
- Machine Ethics
- Publication Ethics
- Programmer Ethics?

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# Thought Experiment

## .fourteen[Can you think of a project that you would tell your boss you wouldn't work on?]