Very often people are proud of the purity of their conscience only because their memory is too short.
~ Zanizad Rafaezsky
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Ethics
Ethics
The worst mistake which was ever made in this world was the separation of political science from ethics.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
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False dichotomies
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; A world where we are always moral and our enemies immoral.
~ Saul D. Alinsky
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Data ethics
This is like lashing a rope around the cracking foundation of a building. What we need is for an ethics of data to be engineered right into the information skyscrapers being built today. We need data ethics by design. Any good building must comply with a complex array of codes, standards and detailed studies of patterns of use by its eventual inhabitants. But technical systems are today being built with a minimal concern for compliance and a total disregard for the downstream consequences of decades of identifiable data being collected on the babies being born into the most complicated information ecology that has ever existed.
~ Colin Koopman from, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/opinion/democracy-survive-data.html
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