Today, on course COMP 3620, *Professional Practices in Computer
Science* (actually, or to be more precisely, the course name
should be Computer Ethics), we continue talking about the
concepts about ethics vs morals but much deeper.
To tell you the truth, I still can’t figure out how helpful of
this course to your ability of computer science. Just think about
our course topic today. It’s hard to believe that knowing the
difference between ethics and morals will promote your
programming techniques. But undoubtedly, this course will totally
wash my mind of perspective of computer science to our society.
For example, without this course, I may never think about the
differences between the two term. Anyway, thinking is not a bad
thing, right?
Really, it’s such a hard thing to tell them apart exactly that
even our instructor can’t do it. So, rather than trying to
defining the two term for us, he chose to tell some properties
about them.
Before he really did that, he showed us a transprency from a
book, which tells the different between the two term by a
picture. There are some balloons floating above a small viliage.
The words under the picture said that morals are like the
passages of the villiage, while ethics are like the balloons in
the sky. That’s even more abstract for us so we treated it like a
joke.
Other than the properties of ethics and morals, what impressed me
was the examples from our instructor. The most impressive one is
about abortion. A woman comes to a hospital for abortion. Without
doing this, she will be very hard for her life. Even she is going
to die. But the doctor is a Catholic (Catholic don’t allow
abortion). For the doctor, abortion is morally wrong. But as a
doctor, he has the obligation to serve the patient. So abortion
is ethical not wrong.
Well, with this example, I feel better for the differences. But
it’s still hard to describe the differences. Maybe it makes you
to think. As I said before, thinking is always a good thing. Do
you agree with that?
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