Writing Assignment 2
Reading:
"Common Morality and Computing",
Bernard Gert,
S&T pp. 96–106.
Write an essay on Gert's article addressing the following:
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What does Bernard Gert mean by "common morality"?
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What is its relation to Kantianism and utilitarianism as discussed in
chapter 2 of our textbook?
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How can common morality be applied to ethical issues in computing,
for example, the Nachi worm scenario of Quinn (p. 81)?
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Your views.