ETHICS

• Fraternity violence raises questions about the value of one's life and the wrongs done to victims by fraternity brothers
• Hazing in fraternities is a common practice involving physical, direct violence, and psychological torment
• Hazing in fraternities is viewed as a way to teach respect, develop discipline, and loyalty within the group
• Cyberbullying involves using technology to hurt, embarrass, threaten, torment, humiliate, or intimidate victims
• Ethics is about pursuing the good and avoiding the bad, determining right and wrong ways of acting
• Ethics involves obligations, prohibitions, and ideals in human behavior
• Ethics is the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment, guiding behavior that helps or harms sentient creatures
• Ethics is a moral philosophy or code of morals practiced by individuals or groups
• Brotherhood is defined as fellowship and alliance in the dictionary.
• Top Philippine Fraternity

  • Gamma kappa (1962)
  • Tau Gamma Phi (1968)
  • Alpha Kappa Rho (1973)
  • Gamma Epsilon (1963)
• Republic Act No. 10175, Cybercrime Prevention act of 2012.

  1. Preliminary Provisions
  2. Punishable Acts
  3. Penalties
  4. Enforcement and Implementation
  5. Jurisdiction
  6. International Cooperation
  7. Competent Authorities
  8. Final Provisions
• Cyberbullying tactics include;

  • gossip
  • exclusion
  • cyberstalking
  • harassment
  • flaming
  • outing & trickery
  • cyberthreats
• Gossip - Posting or sending cruel gossip to damage a person's reputation and relationship with others.
• Exclusion - deliberately excluding someone from an online group.
• Cyberstalking - Posting or sending unwanted or intimidating messages, which include threats.
• Harassment- Repeatedly posting or sending offensive, rude, and insulting messages, or posts.
• Flaming - online fights where scornful and offensive messages are posted on website, forums or blogs.
• Outing & Trickery - tricking someone into revealing secrets or embarrassing information, which is then shared online.
• Cyberthreats - remarks on the internet threatening or implying violent behavior, displaying suicidal tendencies.
• Two kinds of Cyber bubullying

  • Direct attacks
  • Cyber bullying by proxy
• Direct attacks - message directly to the victim.
• Cyber bullying by proxy - using someone else to cyber bullying a victim, this proxy may know they are cyber bullying, and they may not.
• Why is Cyberbullying so Hurtful?

  • Permanence
  • Audience size
  • Familiarity
  • Social networking
  • Speed
• Permanence - The insults, comments or images can be preserved by the person who was bullied or by others so that the victim may read or view them over and over again and the harm is re-inflicted with each reading viewing.
• AUDIENCE SIZE - The size of the audience that is able to view or access the damaging material increases the victim's humiliation
• FAMILIARITY - Many young people re friends with or know their cyber bully either threw school or other other personal connections, increasing he potential for embarrassment and numiliation.
• SOCIAL NETWORKING - Social

  Networking sites such as FB and MySpace allow cyber bullies to engage in campaigns against a particular person which may involve any others.
• SPEED - The speed at which harmful

  messages can reach large audiences also plays a major part in making cyberbullying so damaging to the targets.
• Rushworth Kidder - states that "standard definitions of ethics have typically included such phrases as 'the science of the ideal human character' or 'the science of moral duty.
• Richard William Paul and Linda Elder

  • define ethics as "a set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures.