EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Inculturation, Technological Determinism
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Property conflict --- competing claims on the use of property. / like when middle class professionals move in and drive out long term residents / gentrification / private interest vs. public good. Resource conflict --- forest cut down for timber / how much to take so we remain sustainable. Developmental conflict --- poor suffer because they cannot afford resources but the wealthy can / sometimes this becomes environmental racism. So the flow of these ideas can be summarized: from the expression health, safety, welfare we combined health and. Finally we might coalesce all this back into just welfare. Fyi --- check out the blog of karl stephan on engineering ethics: http://engineeringethicsblog. blogspot. com/ We will have an in-class writing (1/2 page) on a story from. Isaac asimov: never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. (this is a preview of coming attractions. )
