In your opinon can a piece of software be morally "bad" or morally objectionable. Or is it the employment of it that determines the morality?
I had a friend many years ago who was studying philosophy and often asked questions like this of his friends, started big arguments and quietly took notes in the background before writing up his essay for course submission.
Morals are what people do. Software isn't people or a person, therefore....
So, the notion that something like software can (or even should) be anthropomorphised in this way is ludicrous.
The
use to which a piece of software is put by a
person is an entirely different matter.
So, when someone creates what's often termed 'malicious' software, or malware, their
intent may be morally wrong (setting aside for the moment the relativism implicit in any discussion regarding morality and that intent is almost impossible to prove), their action of releasing the malware may also be morally wrong but what the software does is essentially amoral because morals only apply to people.
Now, go and write that essay, Mike, in your own words and with your own ideas because any other action would be morally suspect.