On the morning of September 11, 2001 at 8:45 am eastern time, terrorist hijacked American Airlines passenger airplane Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts was maliciously flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center, “tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire”. At 9:03 am, just 18 minutes later, another terrorist hijacked passenger plane, United Flight 175, was flown into the neighboring south tower of the World Trade Center. 9:43 am; Another terrorist hijacked American Airlines passenger plane, Flight 77, is flown into the Pentagon (CNN). The United States massive World Trade Towers collapsing to the ground. Americans, frantically fleeing New York’s busy streets in chaos, jumping from the towers just to try and survive.
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The American citizens’ have a reasonable, yet debatable concern for breach of privacy, trust, and growing power of the American government. The government investigation into the communications of the residents of America does not disrupt or cause harm to the people 's day to day lives. For these reasons, in addition to the positive consequences of having the ability to obstruct and intercept terrorist acts on United States soil, the utilitarian view of ethics is most fitting because it focuses on the future consequences that benefit greater good of the country. The views of a utilitarian, specifically an act utilitarian, strongly support the claim that computer science engineers creating big data programs to observe the communications of Americans is morally ethical. Computer surveillance is a neutral-positive activity. The information that can be obtained from these big data surveillance programs has been proven in multiple instances to produce a positive outcome when attacks and threats to the United States are foreseen at an early stage. When these threats are foreknown it allows the proper government agencies to take further actions to eliminate the threat before any violent attacks against the United States can be successfully executed. Utilitarians believe that “what makes a morality be true or justifiable is its positive contribution to human beings” (Nathanson). It is computer science engineers foremost duty and responsibility to employ the big data programs that they believe will fulfill exclusively the requirements assigned to them by the government. As a result of achieving computer science engineers that are apart of the government aim to produce the most optimal big data surveillance programs possible while keeping in mind the positive consequence they have on public safety so its
The American citizens’ have a reasonable, yet debatable concern for breach of privacy, trust, and growing power of the American government. The government investigation into the communications of the residents of America does not disrupt or cause harm to the people 's day to day lives. For these reasons, in addition to the positive consequences of having the ability to obstruct and intercept terrorist acts on United States soil, the utilitarian view of ethics is most fitting because it focuses on the future consequences that benefit greater good of the country. The views of a utilitarian, specifically an act utilitarian, strongly support the claim that computer science engineers creating big data programs to observe the communications of Americans is morally ethical. Computer surveillance is a neutral-positive activity. The information that can be obtained from these big data surveillance programs has been proven in multiple instances to produce a positive outcome when attacks and threats to the United States are foreseen at an early stage. When these threats are foreknown it allows the proper government agencies to take further actions to eliminate the threat before any violent attacks against the United States can be successfully executed. Utilitarians believe that “what makes a morality be true or justifiable is its positive contribution to human beings” (Nathanson). It is computer science engineers foremost duty and responsibility to employ the big data programs that they believe will fulfill exclusively the requirements assigned to them by the government. As a result of achieving computer science engineers that are apart of the government aim to produce the most optimal big data surveillance programs possible while keeping in mind the positive consequence they have on public safety so its