Question

To help counter terrorism, many countries are planning or have developed computer systems that track large numbers of their citizens and their actions. Clearly this has privacy implications. Discuss the ethics of working on the development of this type of system.

Answer 1

Answer:

The central ideas here concern discrimination (using force against those who are morally and legally responsible for the attack and not deliberately against others) and proportionality (a reasonable balance between the damage done in the responding attack and the military value of the targets destroyed).