The biggest ethics question of all will be if it is OK to nuke a city
that has an instantly fatal incurable virus or bacteria going through
it, as a means of sterilization. Currently TB in Russia and
stapphicopae <sp!> in UK may be potential candidates, should they get
much worse.
Keachie
A movie, actually several, have been done already on similar lines, and
it is no joke.
BTW, I've moved rural, but am I paranoid enough ?
"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:
> Yesterday, I ran across something that may be of use
> to some of us sometime (hopefully not, of course...).
>
> The Online Engineering Ethics website (Ethics Center
> for Engineering and Science) has long had a lot of
> valuable material, like the stories of the engineer
> who tried to prevent the Challenger disaster, and the
> engineer who, *after* he built the Citicorp building,
> realized it had the potential to collapse in
> high wind (the latter's story is more felicitous
> than the former's)....
>
> http://onlineethics.org/
>
> They have a new service: An Online Help-Line for
> engineers (I presume that would include people
> like myself who, even though I've never had
> an engineering course in school, am employed as a
> "software engineer"...).
>
> http://www.ONLINEETHICS.ORG/helpline/
>
> I feel this is an important issue for science and technology,
> the study thereof, and both the present and future of work....
>
> "Yours in discourse...."
>
> \brad mccormick
>
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