2. Last summer a Google engineer was fired for a controversialmemo he sent to various internal Google project groups suggestingthat the low number of female coders had less to do with biasagainst women and more with the nature of the female brain.Essentially, he claimed, women aren't as interested in coding asmen are. This eventually led to a public backlash against Googlewith demands to sack the engineer. In August, the engineer wasterminated and now is suing Google on the basis of systematicdiscrimination against white males. From the short descriptionabove, you can see how complex this drama has become. Does theIdentity Argument provide us with additional tools to evaluate thiscontroversy beyond what conventional ethics offers? If you think itdoes, use the identity argument as an ethical tool to summarizewhat you think are the main moral features in the controversy. Ifyou are not convinced we can effectively use the identity argumentto sort through moral dilemmas, use the Google controversy tohighlight weaknesses in the identity argument. Follow the linkbelow to read the latest developments on the Google drama: Googledrama
