te of time to worry about them (Gotterbarn, 1991, 26). However, it could also be stated that the creation of a code of ethics for professionals is a statement that resolutions to these problems should be sought whether they can always be found or not. Indeed, a code can reduce the problems to the bare minimum and leave only the most difficult issues left unresolved. Gotterbarn also provides a good rationale for developing a code of ethics for computer professionals when he makes an analogy between computer ethics and other sorts of ethics. He says that people think computer ethics are different and then gives some of the reasons for this, such as the fact that other forms of ethics seem to have fixed domains while computer ethics seems to have no such clear domain:
The scope of computer ethics has been made so broad that it includes numerous and conflicting values and methodologies (Gotterbarn, 1991, 27).
Gotterbarn calls for a narrower definition of computer ethics in order to rein in the subject and mak
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