Assignment task: Ethical Dilemma Faced by these Technological Advancements
The word "responsibility" in the sense of being accountable for and accountable to is very appropriate to the ethics of technology because it makes each and every person in the scientific-technological development a proxy with reference to one another. In other words, each person must indicate the priorities, values, norms, and principles that constitute the grounds for one's actions and define one's continuion to the scientific-technological event. The ethics of responsibility focuses on the positive rather than the negative. Instead of asking "What ought not to be allowed?" ask "What ought to be allowed?" To put it in another way, people who are part of the scientific development ought to let the public know the good in their respective technological contribution/s. In this way, the people will have an idea how the devices ought to be used in order to maximize their positive results.
However, it is also important for the people in the scientific world to inform the masses of the dangers of their contribution/s to the world of technology. In this way, the people will be sufficiently aware of what to do and what not to do. In addition to this, the agents using the devices should also be accountable to and accountable for their use of their gadgets.
Going back to the first dilemma, it can be said that the agents using the devices are the ones to be blamed for the undesirable consequences, namely, laziness and unhealthiness. However, it is the assumption that the people in the scientific-technological world have properly informed the public of the positive tenor of their action in technology and the possible dangers of the misuse of their technological contribution. Thus, the undesirable consequences are brought about by the misuse of the agent. Now, talking about alienation, it can be concluded that the people in the scientific-technological world are blameworthy because they tell the people something that seems positive but when examined closely, brings more bad than good.
On the second dilemma, the people in the scientific world nor the children are blameworthy because first, the children are not yet capable of rationally deciding for themselves what is good and what is bad. Second, even if creators of these technologies went out of their way to inform children of the pros and cons of these technological contributions, it would still be useless because the children have no capacity to understand them yet. So in this dilemma, the ones to be blamed are the adults who allowed the children to have access to such devices in the first place without any supervision. It is the recklessness and overconfidence of the adults that cause the character change in children.
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