Kant believed that a behavior is only ethical when it can
remain beneficial if performed universally by everyone. Based on this
perspective alone, the students were unethical. Only a few of the students were
able to log in and see their acceptance status; others received errors or
blank pages. Although the hacking was not done
with malicious intent doing so was a breach in trust and integrity between the
applicants and Colleges. I believe both trust
and integrity or two of the strongest building blocks in a solid business
foundation. If the students couldn’t be trusted to wait for their
acceptance decision like any other applicant, in my opinion, their
judgment could come into question later for something more business
impacting. This decision to Hack into Harvard or attempt to by some is not a good moral decision and therefore was handled correctly but the
Universities.
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