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-- Don wrote:
> Very often, there is a large gray area of individual
> assessment that lies between an unethical decision
> and a one based upon poor judgement.
There is need for individual judgement, that is certain. The question becomes what one is to do when one's judgement indicates that an action one is being asked to take is in violation of one's own principles. I argue that one *must* practice the virtue of integrity: that is, one must adhere to one's own principles.
This is a long-settled principle of ethics. I have seen no logic proposed on this list to indicate that this principle of ethics is incorrect.
> Also, poor judgement is often rooted in a lack of
> information. Only a very few individuals would have
> all the information necessary to make the kind of
> decision that you are proposing.
Again, as above, you may be correct that few people, in the case of Omega, knew how buggy TS2Ki was before release. (Though, in my own view, it stretches the imagination to believe this.)
Of course, the key issue remains unchanged: whether an engineer who *does know* and ships the product anyway, perhaps at the behest of management, is responsible for his actions.
> And let's face the facts- this is not a matter of
> life and death- it's a software package and I don't
> see any conspiracy or coverup that would take this
> issue into the unethical arena.
What if you knew the management philosophy to be: "Don't worry, be crappy"? Would that make shipment of it unethical?
All the best,
The Omega Man
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