Hi northbear, yes it's true that different humans and different cultures have different standard of ethics. I'm not a scholar in the fields of philosophy and ethics so I'm ill equipped to take on the larger issue, after all my post was only about programming.
Let me say these things though:
if you read the original discussion on hacker news you will realize that most of the people who posted have also shown regret for what they did. So if you are regretful it means the deed violated your own sense of ethics. Which is perfectly in tune with the motivation of my post
ethics, moral codes and laws are not stones. they change in time. for most of the history of humankind the concept of "human rights" was non-existant but then a lot of people (not all) decided we should ascribe to this fictional concept (because there's nothing in nature saying humans should have rights, just in human society). Ethics are fluid yes, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about anything.
If the world is being eaten by software, software programmers should study something in addition to computer science. That's it, that's all I'm saying.
I'm not trying to bring about worldpeace with a few words on dev.to
Hi northbear, yes it's true that different humans and different cultures have different standard of ethics. I'm not a scholar in the fields of philosophy and ethics so I'm ill equipped to take on the larger issue, after all my post was only about programming.
Let me say these things though:
if you read the original discussion on hacker news you will realize that most of the people who posted have also shown regret for what they did. So if you are regretful it means the deed violated your own sense of ethics. Which is perfectly in tune with the motivation of my post
ethics, moral codes and laws are not stones. they change in time. for most of the history of humankind the concept of "human rights" was non-existant but then a lot of people (not all) decided we should ascribe to this fictional concept (because there's nothing in nature saying humans should have rights, just in human society). Ethics are fluid yes, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about anything.
If the world is being eaten by software, software programmers should study something in addition to computer science. That's it, that's all I'm saying.
I'm not trying to bring about worldpeace with a few words on dev.to
On the other hand, it would be really cool if you managed to bring about world peace with a few words on dev.to :P
ahhahaa :D