Ethics and Addiction It Is Term Paper

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These kinds of compulsive behaviors are observed on a daily basis. It has been highlighted by the authors that there is an acceptable use policy implicated on the students in academic institutions and on the daily basis, without regarding the restrictions placed by these policies, students work against the policy. According to the policy, computers within the universities can only be used for academic purposes only. The policy has highlighted that computers in an academic environment should not be used for online sharing, downloading, social networking and gaming (Nykodym, Ariss, & Kurtz, 2008, p. 7). But in the campuses and academic institutions, it is seen that the students usually sit in for social networking and gaming. Thereby, from here it can be seen that either the students don't want to follow the policies or they don't want to understand the restrictions placed in the policies.


The authors have highlighted that gaming has an addictive potential based on the fact that there are strong cognitive components involved that include a strong expectation of a positive outcome. Other than gaming, gambling is a behavior that leads to certain compulsive behaviors and addiction (Roberts, 2010, p. 54).

Conclusion

Occurrence of computer addition cannot be denied even though there is no diagnosis available. Based on this addiction there are many organizations facing ethical dilemmas. Data breach is an important threat faced by the organizations and in these cases it is important that employees being hired are screened for ant signs of addiction. Ethical dilemmas are faced by the addicted individuals as they are not aware of the consequences faced by their activities by their victims as they are not in touch with their victims......

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