Codes of Ethics and keeping to them

I recently had a conversation with a friend online and was reminded that codes of ethics are misunderstood and under-utilized.

They aren’t just for professionals. You do NOT want to have to answer for your ethical failures.

Here’s an example code of ethics from the Association for Computing Machinery (an organization I’ve belonged to for decades):

Code of Ethics
— Read on www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

Something to think seriously about.