DougKeachie
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:53:30 -0800
The biggest ethics question of all will be if it is OK to nuke a city that has an instantly fatal incurable virus or bacteria going through it, as a means of sterilization. Currently TB in Russia and stapphicopae <sp!> in UK may be potential candidates, should they get much worse. Keachie A movie, actually several, have been done already on similar lines, and it is no joke. BTW, I've moved rural, but am I paranoid enough ? "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote: > Yesterday, I ran across something that may be of use > to some of us sometime (hopefully not, of course...). > > The Online Engineering Ethics website (Ethics Center > for Engineering and Science) has long had a lot of > valuable material, like the stories of the engineer > who tried to prevent the Challenger disaster, and the > engineer who, *after* he built the Citicorp building, > realized it had the potential to collapse in > high wind (the latter's story is more felicitous > than the former's).... > > http://onlineethics.org/ > > They have a new service: An Online Help-Line for > engineers (I presume that would include people > like myself who, even though I've never had > an engineering course in school, am employed as a > "software engineer"...). > > http://www.ONLINEETHICS.ORG/helpline/ > > I feel this is an important issue for science and technology, > the study thereof, and both the present and future of work.... > > "Yours in discourse...." > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA > ------------------------------------------------------- > <![%THINK;[XML]]> Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---