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SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHS, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Technology and Dating
Assignment 3: Applying Ethical Theory
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1. Introduction
In the case study the good things that can be interesting about her is that she is young,
vaguely entertain the company, and have a good job. As per the scenario in the case study,
the individual could not understand the reason of breaking of her relation that never last
more than two months (Gordon, 2018). The main problem here was the technology. If gone
back to past ten year, there was no mobile phone. Even Facebook was not existing. There
was only single computer in the entire office that had an email. At that time people had to
literally wait for the other person to call them on their landline. It use to even take week to
speak to a person whom they have dated. The whole process was like a tortuous. However,
it had still worked. When she discussed her last relationship they met in a party and
swapped their mobile numbers and ended in just a week. Thus with the concept of ethical
theory this would be discuss in four different ethic for her to keep up with the relationship
(Xiao, 2015).
2. Utilitarianism Theory
The theory of Utilitarianism will discuss the rightness and wrongness of the technology
used in dating and it will judge the consequences that it brought in relationship (Hamsi et al.,
2015). With this theory the greatest pleasure and happiness can be define which will kill the
pain. The action that is taken could be right that tends to promote happiness and the same
action can be wrong that tends to reverse the happiness. Utilitarianism theory can define the
morality of the action (D. Newton et al., 2013). Similarly, in this case study the girl was happy
when she dated someone but cyber-stalking about his posted in Facebook and Google has
created a bad impression about her on the guy. The similar was seen when the guy invited
her for a dinner and was talking about the articles that she wrote several years back which
inadvertently seems like the guy was trying to reveal that he was also cyber-stalking her
profile too. With the advance technology, the relationship meet and break quickly with the
use of social media like Facebook, Google where a person tries to get into the privacy of
other life and tries to cyber-stalk with their personal profile. For a relationship to last long,
one should create such an impression on the other person that they should build a trust for
each other. The stronger the relation, the more the happiness will be in an individual life.
Instead of getting into the painful life, one was thing of moving on with the relationship that
they have presently and keep the bounding strong.
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3. Deontology Theory
Every action has some morality and Deontology Theory is based on rules that judge the
action morality. Deontology is a duty or rule or obligation that is based on the ethics
(Christians et al., 2015). The action that the girl and the guy had taken as per the case study
will be discussed based on the series of rules whether the action taken by them is right or
wrong. The girl when cyber stalking the guy profile she did not know that the guy was also
cyber stalking her profile. When doing for a dating it is a good thing that a person is trying to
know everything about the person whom they are about to me. In the past decade, it had
happen that people do not know what type of person they are going to meet and keep their
relationship. However, with the advance technology, it is easier to know about the
background of the person. In a relationship to last longer, the individual has to build a trust
between each other, share their personal profile, and keep clear everything about their past
relationship and the present state of their mind in keeping any relationship (Holyoak &
Powell, 2016). It should not be like two individual are forcefully maintaining a relation which
has no meaning of life and such relation doesn’t last long. In the case study when she was
comparing the relation of her friend, she was listening to the tale of her life. According to her,
when someone is in a relationship without an email and text message was like living in a
cave and the present generation was hindering her relationship only because of the advance
technology. They were not looking in the personality or figure but trying to break the security
and privacy of an individual profile and try to get every details about it.
4. Virtue Theory
The ethics of virtue is to emphasize the character of an individual which help an
individual to think ethically (Lapsley, 2016). In the case study, the girl was young, have a
good job, and have a larger-than-average chest and her own teeth which as an individual
personality is a good thing for her. Still she was not able to keep any relationship last for
more than two month. Here the only thing the girl can do is to keep hope of what she desire
in her relationship to last for longer and can expect the relation to work with a flow (Yazdani
& Murad, 2015). The internal happiness will be only when a person love themselves more
than the other. Once this is done, then people will automatically keep relation with them. The
person need not to be worried about whether they are going to get the right person. For self-
security the use of Facebook and Google is not wrong. It keep the bond stronger. People do
not have to wait for longer for a call back or a message.
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