5 Cases

Five Cases

Case 1

The motivations for Roger to design the program may include Roger’s desire to put his skills into practice. Having advantage over the enemy may give him personal pleasure. Making things easier is a general way to satisfy oneself.

His being social and rational may also be behind his action. As part of a collective opposing an enemy, he wants to alleviate the collective from the harm by the enemy. He put aside his self-interests instead of pursuing program design for exclusive use.


Case 2

Perla may be motivated by the pleasure of praise of the alma mater for her actions. It may also be the case that she wants her alma mater to have the competitive advantage instead of other schools.

On the side of ethical altruism, Perla may have just wanted to help her alma mater. It may also be that if she helps her alma mater to be more capable of helping others, then she indirectly helps those that her alma mater helps.


Case 3

Again personal satisfaction may play a big part of motivating Marjo to create the virus for laptop operations. He may gain a lot of pleasure imagining that he can topple the obstacle of determining programmatically if a particular operation is a laptop operation or not, which may be a Herculean task.

Marjo, on the other hand may think that laptop operations are for the elite and not for the masses, he may just be thinking of the general welfare of the common people in which may be the “collective” that he is part of. He may just view that his action may be part of maintaining the society by suppressing the rights of some.

On another angle, Marjo’s desire may not be in tune with the principles of ethical altruism because he may harm the collective with what he wants to do. He may not be respecting the rights and freedoms of the collective to enjoy laptop operations devoid of the nuances of viruses.


Case 4

Having access to a very secure system could boost the ego enormously. Many also believe that revenge is sweet, and it could be something very self-fulfilling.

It could be the case that Baba is part of the collective that the NBI takes the freedoms and interests of for granted. NBI may not be in tune with the well being of the society thus validating the plans of Baba for the collective.

However, sabotage of the NBI may not also be in tune with the welfare of the society since the sabotage of the NBI is also wasting the taxes of the people.


Case 5

There are various aspects of the case that could lead to satisfaction of personal desires in the case of Tikya and John-John. It could include the satisfaction gained by working for the country, or just simply earning money.

Or it could be that they are putting aside their personal interests so that they could work for the government for even just P 1 million and as government consultants; in the process, they may be serving the country with their skills.