Ethical And Ethical Ethics

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One can define being ethically moral by understanding the difference between what is right and what is wrong. It is what shapes an individual’s behavior, their beliefs, and the rules that they follow through. However, not everyone shares the same view of morality. In modern times, ethics is constantly tested, in situations such as robotics, 3D- printing, and in particular surveillance (NSA). Many people argue that surveillance is needed especially so that if anything were to happen, people would be able to be prepared and to deal with the situation accordingly. However, several other people believe it is against our human rights and that we have the right to privacy, which is what Edward Snowden, a previous CIA technical assistant, strongly …show more content…

In this situation, the main stakeholders would Edward Snowden, and the NSA. Snowden is one of the main stakeholders because he is responsible for revealing the documents. Then, the NSA, would be the other main stakeholder because that was where the documents were taken from, that was the organization that got exposed through this whole …show more content…

Utilitarianism is mainly about consequences and not about intent. Basically, it looks at the whole situation, takes note of all the advantages and pleasure, all the disadvantages and pain, and then compares them, in the end, whatever benefits the society as a whole is the winner. By applying this theory to the whistleblowing incident, Edward Snowden released the classified document to the general public, by doing this he had to flee his country, leave a comfortable lifestyle, leave his family and loved ones to seek asylum in another country. The chances of him being able to come back to America are slim. He risked all of this so that citizens of America would know the truth, how their rights are being violated. For Snowden, he would rather give up his country and his safety, so that Americans would know just how much the government has access to obtain their information. In the end, looking in terms of a society, utilitarianism plays in their favor since now they are aware of this situation. Now, looking at this situation with another ethical theory, Kant’s. Kant’s theory has two categorical imperatives, the first categorical imperative talks about where an individual should act in a way in where everyone else can do it all the time, that we should follow rules that can be applied everyone. The second

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