Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; she tweets at @IEthics. Views are her own. ‘Tis the season for toy-buying and toy-giving, and some ...

Full disclosure: One of us works—and the other one did—in an applied ethics center. The definition and the role of ethics are, therefore, deeply important to us. We are fully aware, however, of the ...