Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Frame work for ethical decision making
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Which option will produce the most good and do the least harm? (The
Utilitarian Approach)
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Which option best respects the rights of all who have a stake? (The
Rights Approach)
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Which option treats people equally or proportionately? (The Justice
Approach)
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Which option best serves the community
as a whole, not just some members?
(The Common Good Approach)
as a whole, not just some members?
(The Common Good Approach)
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Which option leads me to act as the sort of person I want to be? (The Virtue
Approach) -
Source:
Similar detail description of the five approaches:
Test your ethical
dilemma with different tests based on five approaches mentioned above with
examples:
Applied ethics news blog:
Labels: ethics
Saturday, January 03, 2015
Copy folders without content
Freeware Treecopy is
small utility that could do this task with graphical interface.
As the Treecopy briefly states - Have you ever needed to
copy a directory structure without copying the files? TreeCopy now makes this
possible. Our small program will allow you to select the "from
directory" and "into directory", and it will proceed to copy
ONLY the directory structure(only folders with names are copied, no contents
are copied). The utility is bundled with functionality such as a command line
interface, calculate directories, Windows XP look and feel and much, much more!
If you would like to use command line cmd or other options, you may look up the following website:
Labels: computer
Friday, January 02, 2015
Date to corresponding day in MS Excel
Say you put on the date in D20 cell and want to get
corresponding day in the previous cell C20. In this case the command to be
written at the function box located in the top of excel sheet(just after fx
symbol)after you put in your cursor in C20 is as follows:
D20 cell: 1/10/2015C20 cell: =TEXT(WEEKDAY(D20),"dddd")
Reference:
Labels: excel