Give students practice in evaluation and decision making. If students write a paper or spend significant class time using the De George criteria, they will have acquired practice in evaluating a decision.

Lead students to actual responsible action. This exercise does not really accomplish this goal. However, you might pose a problem of software piracy or cheating for them that is set in their own environment and that fits the De George criteria (e.g. a student who is employed as a programmer on a safety critical system-like a system for the campus police- and who is caught cheating). Asking students what they would do in this situation will lead toward considering responsible action.

ES1.2:Why be ethical?

ES2.1 Ethical claims can and should be discussed rationally.

ES2.2 Ethical choices cannot be avoided.

ES2.3 Some easy ethical approaches are questionable:

ES3.2 Identifying stakeholders in concrete situations.

ES3.2 Identifying ethical issues in concrete situations.

ES3.5 Identifying and evaluating possible courses of action.

ES4.2 Power relations are central in all social interaction.

SP 4 Professional and ethical responsibilities

• Community values and the laws by which we live
• The nature of professionalism
• The role of the professional in public policy
• Maintaining awareness of consequences
• Ethical dissent and whistle-blowing
• Codes of ethics, conduct, and practice (IEEE, ACM, SE, AITP, and so forth)
• Dealing with harassment and discrimination