Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversations. (arXiv:2302.14326v1 [cs.CR])

The computer security research community regularly tackles ethical questions.
The field of ethics / moral philosophy has for centuries considered what it
means to be "morally good" or at least "morally allowed / acceptable". Among
philosophy's contributions are (1) frameworks for evaluating the morality of
actions -- including the well-established consequentialist and deontological
frameworks -- and (2) scenarios (like trolley problems) featuring moral
dilemmas that can facilitate discussion about and intellectual inquiry into
different perspectives on moral reasoning and decision-making. …

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