her also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (86) Once the person has indirectly (through the virus) trespassed on to the infected computer we are to forgive them, or we can not expect forgiveness from God. The Utilitarian Epicurus, wrote in The Extant Remains that "...since pleasure is the first good and natural to us, for this very reason we do not choose every pleasure, but sometimes we pass over many pleasures, when greater discomfort accrues to us as the result of them..."(157) Since the pain caused by viruses is greater than the pleasures gained by the writer then it is wrong. The Moral Lawist Thomas Hobbes would disagree with the Athenians solely because he believes that, "Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that.. when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can there claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he."(104) He is saying that might does not make right because all men are created, for the most part, equal. Overall, the majority of the philosophers agree that it is wrong to harm the property of another, whether the harm is the result of a fist or viral codes.So now that it is established that malicious destruction is wrong why shouldn't we outlaw any possibility of it happening by saying that you can't even write a virus? Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his letter "A Letter From the Birmingham Jail" that "an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells Nottingham 4him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."(152) It is reasonable to say that he would be willing to believe the opposite for the lack of a just law. If we try to make a just law by arousing the cons...
