Ethics in Computing

Are there ethical issues unique to computer scientists? Not really. A computer scientist has valuable skills, but so do professionals in other areas. Any professional has the responsibility to fulfill contracts and avoid harming others. True, a computer scientist can hack information more sneakily than a cook can poison food. However, ethics is concerned with our actions, not the tools we use to accomplish them.

Life Domination

Online video games. Drugs. Work. School. Pretty much anything, good or bad, can become the dominating factor in our lives. What should the dominating factor in our lives be? As a Mormon, the answer is God. Yet, spending 10 hours straight serving God is not as simple as spending 10 hours watching movies. After all, serving God is not usually an activity. Instead, it is an attitude. We must be in the world, doing all those activities that could become dominating, and yet not of the world because our attitude is different.