[pbourke]

Some occupations - usually professions such as medicine and engineering - seem to have a relatively strong ethical tradition. Perhaps it comes from the self-regulatory aspect of being a member of a profession. These ethics courses in software education are an attempt to move towards that goal. I think ultimately you can’t bootstrap ethics into a population unless that population feels like they owe something to one another. The computing field is just too broad for that.

[cuddlybacon]

In my case, the ethics course we had to take was the same one engineers take.