Discussion11 January 21th ~Our last class~

Last week, our discussion topic was "Spam Filtering". I'm a network administrator and a father for a young family. As part of my responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the e-mails for the organization. Of course, I must not reveal the contents of confidential e-mails of staff members regardless of the contents. It is my company's policy.

However, one day, I get a e-mail which has come from the wife of a very good friend of me. I find that it is actually an e-mail to my friend's wife from her lover. Actually, I want to tell that to my friend but I have to observe my company's rule. That is dilemma so we discussed "What should we do?".

In my opinion, I should not say the truth to my friend because I need distinguish between business and private thing. When I checked the e-mail, I worked at my office as a administrator. Therefore, I can't say that to my friend. Nevertheless, in fact, I want to tell him the truth because he is my important person. Then, I should have a chance to tell him in my private time. Of course, I can not say straight it to him but I can give a chance to remind him what the his wife does wrong now. If the friend answer that he and his wife don't have any problems when I ask him, I have nothing left to say except the follow words; "OK, I see. But, if you have got some questions about your life or love, I'm ready to listen your worry."
The reason why I say, I can't leave the problem with doing nothing. I feel very much that one wants to do something because he is my very good friend. It was our group consensus.

Discussion10 January 14th

Last week, we discussed "Dilemma". The content that a mad man was arrested by police but he had already planted a terrible thing. It is a bomber! Unfortunately, it can kill hundreds of people and we do not have enough time to look for it ourselves. However, the mad man uses his right to keep silent so police can't find it by him. Therefore, police decides to torture the mad man's wife instead of him. The reason why police decides it, they think the mad man would say the truth because he must be important his wife.
Then, we think about this dilemma. What should we do? Do we agree with police's idea or not? In my opinion, of course, we can't lost hundreds of innocent people's lives due to the mad bomber so we need to prevent his bad plan. In fact, if I am one of the victims of the bomber, I can't allow the man absolutely. Nevertheless, it is not good to torture the mad man's wife because she is innocent. Additionally, I think we are not sure that whether he says the bomber's place or not. It is possible that he would break off his wife. If the mad man don't say the truth in spite of police torture the wife, it is no meaning. For these reasons, we should find another way to find the bomber.
One idea is police torture the mad man himself. It is the simple solution. The important point is we must not kill him by the torture but we need do it by he says "You win (=give up)".
Another idea is we exercise a hypnotic to him. It is a peaceful way because nobody sustain an emotional hurt. If the mad man refuse the hypnotic, police can do it by force. Our group member thought it is the best way about this problem so it became our consensus.