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Running head: ETHICAL CONSIDERATION 1

ETHICAL CONSIDERATION 2

Ethical Consideration

DeVry University

Paul Winters

Technology Society and Culture

Aakash Patel

Ethical Consideration

A detailed evaluation of the ethical considerations associated with the technology in relation to its impact on humanity

Most people agree that technology is one of the most important aspects of human lives. With considerations of humanity and ethics, technology has a great impact. Humanity is the ability of human beings to reason and thinks before they involve in any form of action on anything. It is what separates human beings from machines like computers and robots, which are programmed to involve in a certain course of action and respond to certain situations. The impact that technology has is both positive and negative.

To begin with, it is through education that people have managed to highly acquire education concerning ethics. Organizations that have demonstrated the need for ethics has been set up on technological grounds. A company like Apple Inc., for example, is among the many organizations that explain about the necessity of ethics in the workplace, and personal ethics of every individual and its total existence is mainly because of technological existence. Technology has therefore made a positive contribution towards ethics of human beings and promoted humanity.

Technology, on the other hand, has also caused a great negative impact on humanity and ethics. To begin with, certain individuals like hackers, who have mastered numerous technological skills have been tempted by technology to commit crimes that are against humanity and ethical grounds and have made the decisions to involve in them. These involve the many inhuman terrorist actions that have taken place being aided by technology for efficiency. At the same time, it has also cause peoples’ everyday lives to change, simply because they expect perfection from other people like the machines that they work with all the time. It has depleted issues like patience, and thus some people expect other to respond to their demands and requirements immediately. Technology has therefore had both positive and negative effects on people’s humanity and ethics.

An illustration of at least two specific ethical theories that differentiates their varying approaches in consideration of the questions raised by the selected technology

There are many theories that technology has fully affected in a certain way. The figure below fully explains a number of these theories.

As shown in the visual presentation, one of the ethical theories that technology has a great impact upon is the theory of virtual ethics. Virtual ethics is a form of guiding theories that explains that the behavior of an individual relies on certain virtues that they have and what they believe is right. Technology has changed the belief of people from what they used to be before. It has done this through its ability to enable people to socialize with others. When people view other individuals through certain platforms like social media, they acquire new virtual and beliefs. People, for example, might believe that dressing in a certain way is right, simply because they saw other individuals who might be practicing different cultures dressing similarly.

The other theory that technology has affected is consequentialism. This theory as described in the visual presentation explains that the best action that an individual should involve in is the one that provides the greater good. With technology, however, people can involve in actions that affect areas that may be geographically far away from them, and do it in certain ways that the actions cannot be traced to them. When these individuals do not care much about others, therefore, they might involve in these forms of actions and believe that they are ethical since, despite the harm they may do to others, they would still benefit greatly from them (Broad, 2014).

References

Broad, C. (2014). Five types of ethical theory. London: Routledge.