From the course: Technology and Design Ethics
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Assign a utility value
From the course: Technology and Design Ethics
Assign a utility value
- As I explained at the top of this chapter, consequentialism and utilitarianism measure the goodness and rightness of something based on how well it improves the overall utility for the majority. Now that you have a detailed breakdown of the causal consequence chains in your design, add each of the consequences to a table that we're going to put on the four corners diagram. Create a table with the first column being a capability, the second being the consequences, third, the stakeholder, so the person or group affected, and lastly, the utility value. Next, apply utility values to each of the consequences. Plus one for a positive utility, zero for a neutral utility, and minus one for a negative utility. What is the overall utility of this? Meaning does this increase the common good or decrease the common good or do nothing? And for us, now that we've mapped out a capability, then said this capability produces all these…
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