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Can software be morally "bad"

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Mike:
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?

Major_Small:
yes.  you can create software with nothing other than immoral intent.

most 'hacking' software is really network security software, but people use it in ways they weren't intended... maybe ;)

Mike:

--- Quote ---yes. you can create software with nothing other than immoral intent.
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But that's my intent.  Does that make the software immoral?

You can kill a person with a hammer.  Does that make the hammer immoral?

Major_Small:
well, taking that stance, no.  software has no 'right' or 'wrong' software is not a being--it is an organization of elecrical signals that, if they had naturally occured elsewhere in the universe in any environment other than the one they were 'compiled' for, would be completely and utterly meaningless and would almost certainly go unnoticed.

so no.

and I thought of this approach just after I posted the first time...

A Bit of Fruit:

--- Quote ---In your opinon can a piece of software be morally "bad" or morally objectionable
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Yes

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