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Enhancing ethical decision support methods: clarifying the solution space with line drawing

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ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, Volume 37, Issue 2

Pages 53 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/1327325.1327329

Published: 01 November 2007 Publication History

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Ethical decision support procedures have an underlying difficulty in that they do not clearly distinguish the varying impacts of the constituent features of the examined ethical situation. The failure to recognize these features and their varying impacts leads to two critical problems; the risk of removing positive ethical elements as well as negative ones when mitigating the ethical problem, and missing some viable alternative actions. A modified version of line drawing is presented as a way to address these two problems when it is used as an adjunct to already established decision techniques.

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Enhancing ethical decision support methods: clarifying the solution space with line drawing
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    1. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Volume 37, Issue 2

Selected papers from CEPE 2007: The Seventh International Conference on Computer Ethics -- philosophical enquiry

November 2007

67 pages

ISSN:0095-2737

DOI:10.1145/1327325

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