Example 7 on page 18 of "UNIQUE ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" by Walter Maner seems quite appropriate here: Quote: "A program is, as a mechanism

Example 7 on page 18 of "UNIQUE ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" by Walter Maner seems quite appropriate here: Quote: "A program is, as a mechanism, totally different from all the familiar analogue devices we grew up with. Like all digitally encoded information, it has, unavoidably, the uncomfortable property that the smallest possible perturbations -- i.e., changes of a single bit -- can have the most drastic consequences." http://faculty.usfsp.edu/gkearns/articles_fraud/computer_ethics.pdf http://faculty.usfsp.edu/gkearns/articles_fraud/computer_eth...