Don Gotterbarn

This paper uses a cases study about a technical decision to review to computerethics decision procedures. 1. Decision making for the ethical Even before Jim Moor’s seminal paper on Core Values, Kidder [2002] declares “... that despite differences in religion, philosophy, geographical location, nationality, and race, human beings have a common belief in five core values: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness; and compassion.” Why then is decision-making in computer ethics so difficult? Walter Maner argues that it is due to the unique elements of computer ethics. Others attribute it to policy vacuums and changing technology. Regardless of the source of the difficulty ethical computer decisions still need to be made. W need to apply the values mentioned by Kidder in an ordered way to discover and justify our decisions. This paper examines a seemingly simple decision that needs to be made by a computer professional about adopting sender-id as a spam mitigation strategy.