Comments, with reply, on ´Urgency of ethical standards intensifies in computer community´ (Standards)

The commentator writes in defense of ethical relativism, maintaining that M.C. McFarland (ibid., vol.23, no.3, p.77-81, Mar. 1990) has confused it with ethical nihilism. He argues that ethical relativism is completely consistent with a professional society´s formation of ethical standards. McFarland replies that he and the commentator agree on the definition of ethical relativism but differ on its implications. He points out some deeper issues that he believes relativism does not address.<>