No, PAPA: Why incomplete code of ethics are worse than none at all – N. Ben Fairweather

The problem with PAPA’s formulation is the question of whether technology for use in weapons systems ought to be developed. This is an ethical issue of the information age. The information age puts new emphasis on some parts of many older moral questions. The moral issues surrounding the development of weaponry are thus a few of the very many possible examples of how an older moral question can take on a new light as technology changes. Weapons systems can be can be related to information systems because inaccurate data or processing may cause the wrong target to be hit. Privacy and accurancy of computer data and information are issues essentially unrelated to the environmental impacts of computing.
The cost of software that respects legal intellectual property rights, being a significant portion of the cost of computing tends to inhibit the increasing use of computers. Any moral code can be turned to by someone feeling pressures to find a relatively easy way out of a morally tricky situation. It is important for ethical debate to be structured and in some circumstances such debate will need the enunciation off particular principles or guidelines for application in particular circumstances.
The problem is that PAPA has been picked up on by others in a way that may in turn lead some people to believe consideration of privacy, accurancy, property, and access in sufficient moral consideration in the field of information technology. Codes should make it clear what their area of competence but in doing so it must also make it clear that moral issues outside its area of competence are still moral issues and ones that may be greater importance than any covered in the code.