Part 1: Provide a detailed description of what worms and Trojan horses are. Viruses‚ worms‚ and Trojans are malicious programs which enter to your computer without your permission and knowing that can cause damage‚ information losses‚ and privacies leak to your computer. They can also slow down the Internet connections‚ and they might even use your computer to spread themselves to your friends‚ family‚ co-workers‚ and the rest of the internet. A worm‚ like a virus is designed to copy itself from
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Kantian Ethics and Ethics of Care in Feminism Moral Reasoning I would choose to use a feeding tube on Rosemary if I am her doctor since her Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) order is not really applicable in her current situation. Usually people sign DNAR to deny intensive life-extending medical treatments and to avoid suffering from unnecessary pain at the end of his/her own life‚ however Rosemary is not dying but “listless and non-communicative” in this case and the feeding tube here
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Liza G Prof. Williams Ethics 21 November 2011 The Two Shopkeepers One of the several topics covered in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals is the issued of two shopkeepers. One shopkeeper is honest with his customers in order to maintain a positive reputation and improve profits. The second one is honest because he thinks it is right and exercises his respect for the moral law. The first shopkeeper is motivated to be honest by the rewards of a positive reputation and
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A worm is a program than can make copies of itself from one disk drive to another. It is self contained and can also spread by copying itself using email or another form of transport. Worms can compromise the security systems of computers and can cause damage in the process. Worms sent via email usually comes in the form of a joke program or some type of software. They can cause thousands of dollars in damages. A worm would be a weapon of choice for an electronic attack that could cause widespread
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to show that Kantian Deontology is not a plausible moral theory because the two fundamental principles from Kant’s Categorical Imperatives are unable to account for the permissibility of certain acts that would otherwise be considered immoral. This would discredit the usefulness of Kant’s theory as a moral guideline because individuals would then be able to commit acts - those of which would be considered immoral according to considered moral judgements - and yet not be proven morally wrong because
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In “A Simplified Account of Kantian Ethics”‚ author Onora O’Neill makes the claim that Kantianism and Utilitarianism have 2 distinct views on human life and the way it’s value should guide an individual’s morals. She firstly focuses on explaining the Utilitarian perspective on individual purpose and life value‚ rather dramatically calling it a task “not for the faint-hearted” (O’Neill‚ 4). Fundamentally‚ utilitarianism upholds a standard of maximizing utility‚ meaning that no one individual’s happiness
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HON 344‚ Critical Summary Paper Dylan Morgan 2-23-2012 In the article titled‚ Moral Self-knowledge in Kantian Ethics‚ Emer O’Hagan discusses Kant’s views and ideas concerning self-knowledge and the role it plays in duty and virtuous action. O’Hagan first introduces a key feature of Kant’s ethical theory which is its recognition of the psychological complexity of human beings. O’Hagan uses this recognition of psychological complexity by Kant to dive into Kant’s feeling on self-knowledge. Once
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baby. I will cover the ethical issues regarding the topic of genetic engineering and also theories of Kantian Ethics and Utilitarianism to justify if genetic engineering is morally right. A British couple has bypassed strict laws in Britain for genetic screening by travelling to America and undergoing treatment which costs £30‚000 in order to conceive their desired child‚ in the hope to save their
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modified their engine performance to meet the emissions standards. The company was would criminally liable and had to pay a hefty fine and they were forced to make offers to Volkswagen owners to sell back their cars. Some could argue that Volkswagen only acted illegally and not immorally as well. In the paper‚ I will be arguing that Volkswagen acted illegally and immorally based on Kantian ethics. Kantian ethics is an example of a deontological moral theory. Deontological is an ethical theory that
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Robert Tappan Morris created the first ever computer worm‚ and used it to‚ according to Morris‚ gauge the size of the Internet. Morris served no jail time‚ but rather was charged a $10‚000 fine and was assigned to 400 hours of community service time. Morris created the worm while attending graduate school at Cornell‚ and it apparently caused disruption for numerous computers linked to the Internet. Morris claims that he was not creating the worm with malicious intentions in mind‚ but he did get the
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