An Analysis of the Ethical Terrain of Computer-Aided Design
by B. Richardson

With the word "terrain", an allusion is made to moral high grounds and moral low grounds. This analysis concludes that the moral and ethical terrain of computer-aided design is bumpy - not morally evil, not morally good, but not morally irrelevant either, for its several disparate elements, by contrast, can be delineated as either morally good or morally evil.

Caveat 1: This paper presupposes a common ethical vocabulary and conversation. By way of example, it presupposes a common belief that polluting the environment is morally wrong - tragically, not everyone believes this, but it is outside the scope of this paper to make the argument.

Caveat 2: Authorities quoted are only considered authoritative insofar as they speak the same ethical vocabulary and have put coherently into writing what this author believes.