My Answers to HWCase4, Q1
Oct. 19th, 2022 08:26 pmQ1. 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
Three additional standard questions:
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?