Grady Booch, chief scientist at IBM Software Groups Rational division, has questioned whether software developers should be involved in creating systems that are deemed immoral or harmful to others. And Neville R. Roy Singham, founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks, took up the subject of morality and code during a recent interview with eWEEK. Singham said he wants to do good, change the industry and make money. He is quoted as saying, It used to be that shareholder optimization was the prime directive. Our model is serving society in an economically strong way, which is a multi-stakeholder approach. So we are all for gaining a more sustainable environment, the green movement. . . . The fact that it was legal to dump mercury in the river many years ago doesnt mean it was not immoral. The fact that its not illegal but is immoral, whos accountable for that? The fact that a disproportionate number of African-American men go to prison in the United States or are on parole or probation and nobody seems to care about it or says, Thats somebody elses problem, is just wrong. Still, he realizes there are times when the social initiatives must take a back seat. If we have a revenue shortfall . . . were . . . going to go after revenue. . . .
Jerusalem Cloakroom #186: Reflections on Chanukah, 2005::
Jerusalem Cloakroom #109 - August 8, 2001 - While the US Views Islamic victory of divine morality over convenience-driven human definition of morality.
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After telling us to love our enemies, Christ says, if you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much. So what good is doing what Mr. Singham says? If a company pledges to be moral only when the bottom line is black, except for those companies that never intend to do anything but get the other guy’s money by hook and crook, how does Mr. Singham’s company differ from others?
New Woman, from The New Morality and the Working Class::
under the heavy hammer blows of vital necessity, has forged a woman of a provincial bourgeois family and has challenged bourgeois morality to its face.
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Elmwood and Pinewood Flag Petition Petition::
Flags have been a part of this cemeterys memorial standards, through out their parents morality but the morality of convenience (selfishness ), then the
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Doing good, doing socially responsible things, making moral decisions, is easy if it is only done when it doesn’t hurt. But neither amounts to being good, being socially responsible, or being moral. If ideals can be discarded when a shortfall occurs, then it’s really ok to dump mercury in the river or anything else to keep the bottom line black. And that’s a definition of a scoundrel, a person with a black heart and a black soul.
An ancient Russian adage defines charity as sharing a bone with a dog when you’re as hungry as the dog, and it has been pointed out that wealthy people who donate large amounts to charity are giving away what they should be giving back. Being moral and charitable when neither hurts are neither moral nor charitable actions. True morality cannot be compromised. Because businesses are willing to compromise morality, quality, and truth to keep the bottom line black is why poverty, hunger, disease, crime, and war kill, why people are enslaved and exploited, and why the planet has been raped. That they have done so to keep the bottom line black does not justify any of it. Scoundrels love to wear moral faces, and businessmen love to claim that they are do-gooders. Humbug!
What is Hell, and Why does it Exist.::
that molecules cannot make decisions; they just lie about it for convenience. Another very basic principle of morality is that if something is not acceptable
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TPM Cafe | Talking Points Memo | Morality vs. Politics and My Job as a ::
see deep cynicism in his belief that morality is only the domain of religion or to do with morality, merely self-interest bounded only by a framework of law.
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