It is a great post. Ethical behavior can be practical. It is important to stress in this time where everything, including ethics, can be justified by argument of being practical and efficient. We may smuggle more ethical behavior through the “back-door”.
Practicality and efficiency are always foremost in my mind in whatever I do. I tend to apply a certain I/O machine language philosophy in the workplace. I believe that the way computer hardware and software relate to each other is a perfect paragon of the hierarchical structure of any organisation. If everyone speaks the same “language” and an effort is made to pair up the right components then you will have a well-oiled machine. Just like with any new software, faults will always be present and a few courses of debugging will ultimately hone the software and make it more efficient.
Remaining on the tech theme, maybe ethics is more like an anitvirus program, it needs to have a place in the grand scheme of things in order to keep the morally weak (buggy software) from succumbing to the havoc that malware (negative elements) causes in an organisation. So we come full circle to your “back-door” comment, Dr. Kurbalija; just like in any software project, being able to regain access through a back-door and inject some ethics is essential when our software is compromised beyond repair by unethical elements.
Thanks again for your comment that got me thinking more about this subject…I feel a new topic brewing for a future article. 😉
It is a great post. Ethical behavior can be practical. It is important to stress in this time where everything, including ethics, can be justified by argument of being practical and efficient. We may smuggle more ethical behavior through the “back-door”.
Thank you Sir for your much appreciated feedback.
Practicality and efficiency are always foremost in my mind in whatever I do. I tend to apply a certain I/O machine language philosophy in the workplace. I believe that the way computer hardware and software relate to each other is a perfect paragon of the hierarchical structure of any organisation. If everyone speaks the same “language” and an effort is made to pair up the right components then you will have a well-oiled machine. Just like with any new software, faults will always be present and a few courses of debugging will ultimately hone the software and make it more efficient.
Remaining on the tech theme, maybe ethics is more like an anitvirus program, it needs to have a place in the grand scheme of things in order to keep the morally weak (buggy software) from succumbing to the havoc that malware (negative elements) causes in an organisation. So we come full circle to your “back-door” comment, Dr. Kurbalija; just like in any software project, being able to regain access through a back-door and inject some ethics is essential when our software is compromised beyond repair by unethical elements.
Thanks again for your comment that got me thinking more about this subject…I feel a new topic brewing for a future article. 😉