Q1. Prepare case notes on an ethics case which, for this HW, is an example of an ethical code. Online students: post your notes to your blog. Your notes should include the following.

A link or other citation to the case you are using, or if it is from personal experience, point that out.
A list of 8 or more important facts about the case. These could help you tell your group members or anyone or remind yourself what the case is all about.
A list of questions (4 or more) to think about or discuss about the case.
A 5th discussion question about how computer security relates to or could relate to the case.

Answer:

The source of my case is: https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/hammurabi

Eight important facts are:



  • The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest written codified law systems

  • Named after a king of Babylon, Hammurabi ruled from the years of 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C.

  • The set of laws had a total of 282 edicts ranging from laws of retribution to payment for goods and services

  • Although not considered ethical today, Hammurabi's Code included many physical punishments from the removal of a hand for a thief to demanding various body parts for one's misdeeds.

  • Although more a system of laws than ethics, it was the first system that actually attempted to tell people how they should and should not act.

  • The Code of Hammurabi was found in 1901 when French engineer Jacques de Morgan excavated an ancient kingdom in Persia.

  • According to those who have studied it, The Code of Hammurabi bares a striking resemblance to laws outlined in the Old Testament

  • It can now be found in the Louvre in Paris, on display for all to see.


Four questions to ask about the case are:



  • Although some of the practices in The Code of Hammurabi may seem barbaric to us (ex: A doctor who kills a rich patient gets his hands cut off), they may have been the best code of laws that could have been created at the time. Would you consider them ethical?

  • Being the earliest written code of laws, did it really influence other codified systems of laws that came after it?

  • If you were to be Hammurabi in that time period, how would you have changed the Code of Hammurabi given the chance?

  • Is there anything from the Code of Hammurabi that could be applied to the punishments of those who use computers in bad ways?


Three additional standard questions:

  • What does virtue ethics say about this case?

  • What does utilitarianism say about this case?

  • What does deontology say about this case?

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