Small group discussion... or Rule number one: You don't talk about group discussion.

Rule number two: You don't talk about group discussion.

Anyway, was it just me or do most teachers have insanely high hopes for group discussions?  They dream for this:

But instead get this:

or this:

So I've signed up for the small group discussion part of the class this upcoming Friday and these will be the topics that we'll be discussing.  What I would like from you is your ideas, perhaps some Bible passages that come to mind about the topic.  The topics are in italics and my first impressions about them are after.

1.  The head of marketing thinks one of his subordinates spends too much  time surfing the Internet. He asks you to monitor the employee's e-mail, URL  stops and Web downloads, and wants the logs on his desk in a week.  He asks that  you not inform the employee of your monitoring, and that you not discuss your  activities with anybody else in the company. 

I don't have a problem with this, but the requirement to not discuss the activities with anyone else might be suspect.  If you're at work, your time is not your own, you should be working.  I would probably think of the 7th commandment in this situation.  You are stealing from your employer if you get paid for not doing the work that you are getting paid to do.

2.  Frank is a software designer who has been assigned to work with an  employment agency, building a database for their job applicants.  The client (the  employment agency) explains that when displaying a list of equally qualified  applicants for a position, male applicants are to be listed ahead of female  applicants, and white applicants are to be listed ahead of non-white applicants.

This one is a bit obvious here, but maybe it's an employment agency for actors and when a script calls for a white dude the agency needs a program that can sift through all of the actors and find the white dudes quickly!  Or maybe the employment agency is run by a bunch of sexist bigots?  Who knows?  Passages anyone?

3.  Irene is a software designer who has been assigned to work for a foreign client, building a database to help schedule on-going medical treatments.  She is  asked by the client to build the database so that members of ethnic group A are  always given priority over members of ethnic group B, even if that priority  endangers the life of the latter.  Such a priority is not illegal in the country where the client is located;  indeed, it is culturally expected.

I don't think I would want to work on this project, though I would want more information about the whole thing.  In the end, I would tell them to find someone else to do it.  Even though this is similar to number 2, does anybody have some passages that might apply?

Thanks!