This is one of the problems, computer people struggle with - how to make them ethical? But you cannot make a Computer ethical, any more than you can make a Steam Engine ethical.
People do not realize this - because the User Interface for the Computer, has been designed to make it seem human. And people have been taken in, by this illusion. The little Phone, they can hold in their hands - is a miracle! And will make their every wish come true.
Some subtle, but unconscious, reasoning is going on here. And it goes right back to our religious nature - we believe supernatural forces control the world, and all we have to do, is align ourselves properly with them.
And one of these forces is in our Phone. How it got there, we do not know - but it is there!
This belief is accurate - but only partly accurate. The Computer is a new force in the world - and it seems supernatural, to those who do not understand how it works.
It does not take much of an effort to understand how it works. But this effort is not being made. And something else (perhaps the Computer Industry) determines our values.
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