Choose any one of the questions below and apply the five listed theories to the selected question
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Choose any one of the questions below and apply the five listed theories to the selected question of your choice:
-Kantianism
-Act Utilitarianism
-Rule Utilitarianism
-Social Contract Theory
-Virtue Ethics
- If automation leads to chronic and widespread unemployment, should the government provide long-term unemployed adult citizens with the opportunity to do meaningful work at a wage that will keep them out of poverty? Why or why not?
- Is it wrong to create machines capable of making human labor obsolete?
- The Umpire Information System, produced by QuesTec, demonstrates that a computer can call balls and strikes more accurately than a human umpire. In fact, the system is being used by Major League Baseball to evaluate the accuracy of the umpires’ calls. Should Major League Baseball allow the Umpire Information System to have the final say on calling balls and strikes?
- Is it morally acceptable to work on the development of an intelligent machine if it cannot be guaranteed the machine’s actions will be benevolent?
- How will our notions of intellectual property change if computers become capable of creative work?
- How will our ideas about privacy have to change if legions of superfast computers are analyzing the electronic records of our lives?
- The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written by John Steinbeck, vividly describes the conditions of migrant workers in California during the Great Depression. In the novel, farmers take advantage of the fact that there is a surplus of labor by lowering wages to the point that families can work all day and still not earn enough money to feed themselves properly. Is the gig economy creating the same kind of “race to the bottom” in terms of worker compensation?
- A multinational corporation has an office in Palo Alto, California, and an office in Bangalore, India. A 21-year-old American computer science graduate works as a software tester at the Palo Alto office. A 21-year-old Indian computer science graduate has an identical position at the Bangalore office. The American earns $75,000 per year in salary and benefits; the Indian earns $10,000 per year in salary and benefits. Is this arrangement moral? Should the company give equal pay and benefits for equal work?
- You lead a group of five software engineers involved in the testing of a new product. Your manager tells you that because of a company-wide layoff, you need to give notice to one member of your team. From your interactions with the team members, you can easily identify the two members who are least productive, but you are not sure which of them you should lay off. You know that the company keeps track of all Internet traffic to each person’s computer, although you have never shared this information with your team. You could use this information to determine how much time, if any, these two employees are spending surfing the Web. Is it wrong to access these records?
- A company runs a large technical support office. At any time, about 50 technical support specialists are on duty, answering phone calls from customers. The company is considering paying the technical support specialists based on two criteria: the average number of phone calls they answer per hour and the results of occasional customer satisfaction surveys. Debate the pros and cons of the proposed method of determining wages.
Make sure the bulk of your response is focused on how each of the 5 ethical theories support your argument.
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Income Tax Fundamentals 2013
ISBN: 9781285586618
31st Edition
Authors: Gerald E. Whittenburg, Martha Altus Buller, Steven L Gill
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