Each team of three to five students had a few minutes to huddle and determine its position before responding. And each team had to defend its position in subsequent questioning. All the colleges represented at the Ethics Bowl offer courses on ethics, either separately or as part of a broader class. Parents teach their children it's wrong to throw a baseball through the window, but they don't always think to teach them it's wrong to get into a Web site and damage it. Many of the teachers said that while the ethical dilemmas are the same ones that have plagued humanity through the ages, technology has made it easier to cheat, deceive and invade people's privacy.
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Information collected on our browsing habits, spending patterns, even the programs we listen to on our car radios, can be sold to marketers without our knowledge. Photographs never lie, except when they're digitally altered. Even the purveyors of technology can find themselves overwhelmed by the wide-ranging ethical ramifications of their goods. It's spread globally, and you are interactive with so many more people than in the past. Some ethicists contend the guideposts haven't changed, however.