ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ethical aspects of tracking children. It provides an idea about how and why responsibility matters in the context of technological development and risk. The chapter looks more closely at a challenge to responsibility in engineering, that is, the so-called problem of many hands (PMH). It argues that it could be conceived as a virtue, that is, a character trait or a disposition, to take responsibility for more than what one's employment contract specifies. The chapter describes how all choices are affected by the way in which alternatives are presented, and shows that even a libertarian needs to be paternalistic in this sense: there are no choices completely unaffected by the number and framing of alternatives. It examines that responsibility as a virtue helps to overcome or at least diminish the PMH in the context of engineering and technological risk.
