9/5 Meeting Recap

The group met up yesterday to discuss the final presentation and report.

The presentation is going to be a slideshow edited on google docs. The presentation is going to have a summary of the scenarios followed by the choices available to the main character as well as the pros and cons of each choice.


- Mingchen

Whistleblowing

I found the Eric's lecture on whistle-blowing incredibly relevant to our group scenario. Whistle-blowing is basically the disclosure of misconduct an employee or member of an organization.

The common etiquette for whistle-blowing is as follows
1. try to keep within the system
2. express objections
3. be tactful
4. keep supervisors informed (unless the supervisors are part of the issue)
5. be accurate

during the lecture we learned that whistle-blowing is appropriate for a person when great risk is involved and when the organization or immediate superiors have already been informed of that persons objections.

We also learned about supererogatory obligations, where whistle-blowing becomes beyond the call of duty, and is not required morally. In such situations usually the personal cost is too great for an employee to disclose information.

This relates directly to our Scenario A topic in which John Connor has information which he can disclose to Cyberdyne, but could lose a promotion or even be fired for his troubles. On the contrary, the only thing John gains by telling Cyberdyne is a better friendship/relationship with his old coworkers. In our situation I believe that John's path to whistle-blow is a supererogatory obligation, where the risks greatly outweigh the benefits.


- Mingchen