Module 3: Egoism & Altruism

Case 1: Roger designed a computer program that would make detection of enemy codes easier.

Egoism: Roger designed an enemy code detector computer program to prove how clever he is.

Altruism: Roger really wants to help his country by protecting it from enemy attacks.

Case2: Perla plans to buy licensed software in the US using royalties from the sale of her book on computer ethics, and donate the software to her alma mater.

Egoism: Perla wants her book to be acknowledged by her alma mater by donating software bought out of the royalty of her book.

Altruism: Perlas is generous in providing the licensed software to her alma
mater at any cost even at the expense of the royalty she earned out of her book.

Case 3. Marjo wants to create a virus that would affect only laptop computers.

Egoism: Marjo desires to display his superiority over people with laptop computers by creating a virus that affects only those laptop computers.

Altruism: Marjo wants to reveal the vulnerability of laptop computers to virus
so that it will be fixed by manufacturers.

Case4: Baba debugged a secret code of the NBI that allowed her to access all computer systems of the agency. She plans to sabotage the whole system as a form of revenge for what she considers to be NBI’s violation of her human rights.

Egoism: Baba wants to display her wit over NBI by sabotaging the agency's system to retaliate to NBI's violation of her human rights.

Altruism: Her goal is to stop NBI's human rights violation by sabotaging their
system.

Case 5: Tikya and John-john were contracted to design and develop a website for government agencies in the Philippines at the cost of P1 million. An Added feature of the contract is that they would be contracted as computing consultants of the government.

Egoism: They put some bugs in their work intentionally to have the government setup a contract with them as consultants.

Altruism: After developing the website, they agreed to have a contract with the
government as consultants to ensure that everything is working well.