ARMPD- Lecture No. 7 (ETHICS)

ETHICS(23/07/12)

What is Ethics?

Ethics is a system which consist of moral Principles. 

"Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander, and fraud. Ethical standards also include those that enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty"

According to what our lecturer explained ethics is a set of guidelines which tells us what to do.  Religion and laws help us to act in a socially responsible manner and with harmony. Therefore  Ethics are molded based on the culture, religion, family background etc. What we think might me different to the others. 
ex-  Sending parents to elders home is unethical in Sri Lanka culture however it is a different case in some other western countries.


After this we discussed about IT and how it affects the ethical issues. majority of the organizations collect information about its customers through IT media in order serve them better. This is ethical in point of view of the firm but may be unethical when it comes to customers because it violates the code of privacy.


Basic concepts of ethics are as follows

Responsibility     -     You are accountable for the actions you make
Accountability    -     You are responsible and you must bare what ever the consequences you have to face
Liability    -     Laws to identify the person who is guilty, the person who is guilty should bare the consequences and the innocent party will get a compensation

The lecture was concluded by the lecturer by giving us a role play and to act it out in the last 15 mins. we were divided into groups and then we came up with our own drama about ethics and acted it out. Our topic  was based on APIIT Dress codes. That was it for today.


more details click this  http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.html


Reflection of Today's Lecture 


Ethics are guidelines which tells us what is wrong and what is right. It helps us to be better citizens with better qualities which in turn leads to a better quality of life. From today's lecturer it taught us how important ethics is to our lives and what i learned from this lecture is to be ethical in everything i do in my life.

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