Ethical, Legal, and Moral Barriers and Boundaries by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

In the United States we have many ethical, legal, moral barriers and boundaries governing the behavior of citizens with respect to dating. A psychiatrist is ethically bound not to date a patient that is in her/his care. A professor and a teacher should not date a current student. A lawyer should not date a client. These are just a few of the ethical safeguards on the interactions between citizens. A medical doctor should not exchange opioid prescriptions for sex with a patient, which constitutes a violation of ethics and legalities. This is especially grievous if the prescribing physician is also married. A pastor or other church official should not have sexual relationships with a parishioner.

I met someone last year that I would like to at least date. As usual in my case there is an ethical dilemma standing in the way of my getting to know this individual better via at least corresponding using email and/or telephone calls or texting. So what, I guess I will have to just move on and find someone whose ethics I will not violate by correspondence with her.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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