Ethics Analysis Paper #1
Due: February 15, 2007
Words: 1638
Today's society leads us to many questions and concerns. It often feels that there are pulls in every direction to make everything right. Nothing seems to be wrong anymore. However, then again, many situations constituted in the past as right, are now condemned to be wrong. Should everything be tolerated without judgment? In earlier generations, behaviors of right and wrong were based, for the most part, on religious teachings or backgrounds. The world has been broken into individuals speaking for themselves rather than society acting as a whole. In times past society has given us experiences that we have been able to use to set boundaries and rules for the society as a whole. Public libraries have recently been faced with an ethical dilemma over the public rights; with the technology world blasting into new boundaries society is left to wonder where to draw lines.
For centuries ideas have been left minimally untouched. Computers were rooms full of equipment that generated very little, if anything. Today, computers are a gateway to anything imaginable with a simple touch of the finger. Within the last decade and the advent of the internet, computers have taken on the main source for information leaving magazines, newspapers, and even television with a very stiff competition. Libraries have always been a rich source for a large amount of information in one place. The public need for computers in the library is essential for brining this vast amount of information to the public in that one place. However, before the introduction of the internet into the library, there has always bee ...