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Criminal bait such as internet entrapment for catching child molesters might raise questions on ethics, but it can save lives and lessen the harm of possible number of children and their families.
Sting operations should be used to lure pedophiles. From a utilitarian perspective, "a social policy is morally permissible if the consequences that result from it produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of persons affected by the policy."(p 53) In our case, maybe some of the people will get disturbed, by the fact that when they chat online they might be monitored, violating their privacy. On the other hand, when we focus on the result from doing these operations, we might save a lot of lives and happiness of some children. By Jeremy Bentham' theory, the "social utility" from the result of doing sting operations can be measured by happiness. When the operation puts a pedophile in jail, the families with children in the society will be more relief, therefore producing more happiness. Majority of the society have children, so we can safely say that the operation produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of …show more content…
Error, Abuse, Privacy. Error is referring to the increase of rates of error when the criteria of acceptable match is expanded. Abuse is referring to the use of biometrics can be abused by authorizing more people to use it. At last, privacy violation is obvious, because it takes information from individuals without consent. For those who is in favor using biometrics, they argue that it provides better security overall. By comparing in favor and against biometrics, we can see who favor biometrics focuses on the overall safety of a society, and who is against biometrics favour individual rights and freedom. We can conclude who favor biometrics favors more toward collectivism, and who against biometrics favors more toward
Criminal bait such as internet entrapment for catching child molesters might raise questions on ethics, but it can save lives and lessen the harm of possible number of children and their families.
Sting operations should be used to lure pedophiles. From a utilitarian perspective, "a social policy is morally permissible if the consequences that result from it produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of persons affected by the policy."(p 53) In our case, maybe some of the people will get disturbed, by the fact that when they chat online they might be monitored, violating their privacy. On the other hand, when we focus on the result from doing these operations, we might save a lot of lives and happiness of some children. By Jeremy Bentham' theory, the "social utility" from the result of doing sting operations can be measured by happiness. When the operation puts a pedophile in jail, the families with children in the society will be more relief, therefore producing more happiness. Majority of the society have children, so we can safely say that the operation produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of …show more content…
Error, Abuse, Privacy. Error is referring to the increase of rates of error when the criteria of acceptable match is expanded. Abuse is referring to the use of biometrics can be abused by authorizing more people to use it. At last, privacy violation is obvious, because it takes information from individuals without consent. For those who is in favor using biometrics, they argue that it provides better security overall. By comparing in favor and against biometrics, we can see who favor biometrics focuses on the overall safety of a society, and who is against biometrics favour individual rights and freedom. We can conclude who favor biometrics favors more toward collectivism, and who against biometrics favors more toward