"The Air Force did not punish any cadets at the time, choosing to treat the episode as what a spokesman called “a teachable moment.” West Point cadets had mixed reactions to the injuries this year. Some saw them as a rite of passage in a school known for being tough; others saw a lack of judgment and restraint. “At first the body count, people were joking about it,” a female first-year cadet said. “My friends were really excited. And right after, when we learned how many people had gotten hurt, everyone felt totally hard-core. I know it looks weird from the outside, but it really bonds us.” But when she saw a male cadet being loaded into an ambulance outside her dorm room, she began to have second thoughts. “If you are an officer, you are supposed to make good decisions and follow the rules. You are supposed to mediate when everyone wants to go out and kill everyone,” she said. “The goal was to have fun, and it ended up some guys just chose to hurt people.”"
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Saturday, September 5, 2015
At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized; New York Times, 9/4/15
Dave Philipps, New York Times; At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized:
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