IT and ethics
Dear reader, in my last blog I am going to talk about the relation of IT and ethics, more particularly about ethical egoism . Here is an example of that, “Jack believes that Jill should promote her own interest in accordance with ethical egoism. Jack might believe this, but he isn't going to tell Jill. He looks to his own interest first.” This basically means that whatever we do for our benefit it is ethical to do so and it is not considered unethical to not act against our interest. So how can we interpret it in the fields of IT? First of all, we need to consider a situation, this can be a variation of things ranging from a job and it’s compensation to competing for a position or pay raise. For example, if we talk about freelancers, they usually make their own set of rules and can determine the amount of compensation they want in return. Most of the time is considered rude but they are right in a way. They are a one-man team, doing a lot of hard task on a very high level and