For example, when chatting with friends and family to whom it is difficult to speak with on the telephone, one is able to use the Internet for no extra charge, would be considered a morally good purpose. Where as, if not used with caution the Internet can be a very dangerous place. People have committed crimes, resulting in murder, rape, exploitative pornography, and many more immoral acts.

The growth of technology is "progress", as the moral good and everything therefore must have a "means-end" conclusion. George Ritzer best describes this in his book "McDonaldization". Ritzer introduces the rubber cage of rationality where the bars of society are bendable therefore the wonderful world of cyberspace is escapable. The effectual growth of technology on one's authenticity may be viewed by two different theories, one being, Utilitarianism, by John Stewa

"I feel that people tend to enjoy feeling in control of their own actions, feelings, and identities," (Petro, 3). This explains freedom of will, which is connected to one's morality. Kant argues that with any negative freedom, comes a positive freedom. This exemplifies the benefits of the Internet through the connections of family and friends. The Internet allows people to correspond back and forth to one another more efficiently, predictably, and calculably, by means of e-mailing addresses, instant messages and by faxing. On the hand there are burdens with in the Internet, such as, exploitation, pornography, and other Internet related crimes.

The categorical imperatives are a set of commands to direct our will. These apply to all people and commands conduct immediately, without having any other purpose or conditions. It is categorical because of its application to all rational beings and imperative because it's the principle by which one should act. The basic formulation of the categorical imperative is "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law," (Kant, 30:421). This is an inadequate consequence of inclination because universal laws, in this respect; is similar to natural laws of science. Formulations of the categorical imperative include, not treating other human beings as a means rather than an end, and by the will regarding itself when making any universal law.

"....to the love of power or to the love of excitement, both of which do really enter into and contribute to it; but its most appropriate appellation is a sense of dignity, which all human beings posses in one form or other, and in some, though by no means in exact, proportion to their higher faculties, and which is so essential a part of the happiness of those in whom it is strong that nothing which conflicts with it could be otherwise than momentarily an object of desire to them," (Mill, 9).

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