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 Ethical Egoism I wanted to talk about the ethical theory of Egoism by brining an example of it in IT and then go a little in-depth to it. Ethical Egoism states that: " The long-term personal benefit should be the sole criterion for the Right; Bartering is a foundational principle in human relationships - while not ruling out helping others, it is only considered reasonable in case of mutual benefit." A prime example of this I would want to talk about are independent vulnerability researchers or more accurately the company's attitude towards people like this. There are multiple examples of someone finding a critical vulnerability in a system which is owned by a company and then the person has ended up getting sued till they are unable to proceed with their passion. To combat this kind of action there were created bug bounty programs. There are multiple bug bounty programs out there that have many companies, where they can define their scope and then what are considered di

 The Principle with disabilities and controlling computers I wanted to take this opportunity to write about a gamer called " RockyNoHands ". He is a streamer and a gamer in many shooters now, his disability however, is the lack of hands, hence the name. He injured 2 of his vertebrae at a party and lost the ability to control his body. Person who used to do a lot of sports and be hands on in most situations suddenly losing all of that mobility can be very life changing, which it was. Luckily his brother found a quad-stick online, which improves accessibility to the computer by the using a sort of like a joystick which has 3 holes in it. Into the holes you can either blow air or suck air out and you can move around the joystick in general. There are different combinations you could do with the holes, which are the amount of them you use, you could only use 1 of them or 2 at the same time or all 3.  Additionally the joystick also recognizes the strength of your suction or blow,