You have been working the XYZ Computer Corporation as an entry-level engineer since you graduated from college last May. You done very well so far; you are respected by management, are well liked by fellow employees, and have been to a team of engineers that has consistently worked on the most critical and projects and contracts that XYZ Corp. has secured. Their most recent contract is for a United States project involving the missile system, and again you have been assigned to the team that will develop software for project. However, you are staunchly opposed to the project's objectives, so ask to be reassigned. Your superisor and coworkers, as well as upper management, are to learn of your strong feelings about this project. You are asked to reconsider your views, and you are promised a bonus a substantial pay increase if you agree to work on this project during the next year. also discover from a colleague that refusing to work on this project would greatly diminish your advancement at XYZ and may even make you vulnerable to future layoffs. To compound matters, you your spouse are expecting your first child in about three months and you recently a home. What would you do? Describe the process of ethical deliberation that you undertake in trying to this dilemma.
In the days and weeks following the tragic events of September 22, 2001, some political leaders claimed that extraordinary times call for measures; in times of war, basic civil liberties and freedoms, such as privacyneed to be severely for the sake of security and safety. Perhaps as a nation, the value that we have traditionally attached to privacy has diminished significantly since then. Initially, the majority of American strongly supported the Act, which passed by an overwhelming margin in both houses Congre3ss and enacted into law on October 21, 2001. However, between 2001 and 2005 support for act diminished considerably. Many privacy advocates believe that it goes too far and thus erodes basic civil liberties. Some critics also fear that certain provisions included in the act easily be some of the details of the Patriot Act and determine whether its are as extreme as suggest. Are those measures consistent with the value of privacy, which Americans claim to embrace? Do privacy interests need to be reassessed, and possibly recalibrated, in light ongoing threats from terrorists?