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Subject:FW: Ethics and Job-Hunting From:"Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes (EAA)" <Sean.O'Donoghue-Hayes -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:45:28 +1100
Congratulations guys - perhaps the ultimate unanswerable topic as ethics are
quite often not only a social set of rules and obligations, but also a
personal set of rules and obligations by which we chart our life course....
as many of us are documenting new technology the thoughts of tomorrow's
children on what we did today are always pressing...I like to think of those
technical writers, or perhaps just writers, who promoted smoking as good for
you. And there were ad campaigns that said smoking was good for practically
everything - only as the cancer epidemic (if I may call it that) swept
through the Western world was there a realization of the damage done and the
cost.
I work for a company that creates, develops, manufactures and markets mobile
phones.
They seem safe. No one is forcing you to use them......but there are always
constant reports that they do emit some levels of radiation.....it is part
of being a mobile phone, tests are conducted, and they appear safe....but
what if in 2020 it is revealed that one test was hidden by an unscrupulous
company - that holding a device to your ear as it pulses away causes cancer?
I know we build them as safely as we can - yet I wonder what Sir Walter
Raleigh would say if confronted by those many souls his "New World" product
would in future slay.
** Please Note to my knowledge mobile phones are safe to use!!! And have
proved themselves a great product - "hi honey, traffic jam on the highway,
don't put dinner on for another half an hour - then I join you all - can I
say night to the children..." ***
regards and thanks,
Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes
Sean.O'Donoghue-Hayes -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au
(61) (03) 9301-1695
EAA/N,
Melbourne Central, Level 49.12,
360 Elizabeth Street,
Melbourne 3000
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