There are many ethical issues that need to be addressed in the engineering field. Ignoring these situations might result in serious damages to either the company or other involved parties. One of the issues is the scenario of an engineer who developed a new and untested robot and delivers it to the buyer, and lets say that particular buyer is the military. so, the question Is, would you sell the unfinished product or conduct further tests and then sell it. Are there solution to prevent this, and if any, how?
Many people like myself would oppose the selling of the product, saying that no one knows what the machine is capable of. lets take a peace keeping robot as an example. The goal of such task is to cause no harm. What if the machine malfunctions and harms a civilian. That would spark a lot bigger issues. That goes the same for a drone. instead of firing at the enemy, it fires in the wrong direction and hits the wrong people, most likely the some of the soldiers themselves. what if the drone or whatever machine we are talking about breaks in the middle of the war.
Some other people who are for the selling of the product would have reasons such as an emergency might occur and the product must be sold to the military immediately to help with the fighting effort. Still, I believe that an unfinished product is an unsafe product.
Many people like myself would oppose the selling of the product, saying that no one knows what the machine is capable of. lets take a peace keeping robot as an example. The goal of such task is to cause no harm. What if the machine malfunctions and harms a civilian. That would spark a lot bigger issues. That goes the same for a drone. instead of firing at the enemy, it fires in the wrong direction and hits the wrong people, most likely the some of the soldiers themselves. what if the drone or whatever machine we are talking about breaks in the middle of the war.
Some other people who are for the selling of the product would have reasons such as an emergency might occur and the product must be sold to the military immediately to help with the fighting effort. Still, I believe that an unfinished product is an unsafe product.