As the main issue at stake is the process of the matter; therefore the principle of duty must be followed. The ethical expert would advise “2 Day FM’s Hot 30” to exercise self-restraint and act ethically as it is their duty. Despite the temptation to please audiences and to achieve high ratings and revenues by humorous pranks, duty must prevail and the prank must not be aired. Furthermore, individuals in and outside the business universally should be treated with respect and should not be treated as a means to an end. To not air such pranks; this can be easily accepted universally, which is in compliance with Kantian ethics.
Drug addicts and alcoholics should not involuntarily be committed to a hospital for assessment and treatment. All individuals have the right to self-determination and their personal autonomy to live their life the way they choose should always be respected. Individuals of age should have the liberty to decide what is best for them without government paternalistic interference. If interference is required because an individual’s actions harm others, legal actions should be taken to punish them lawfully by still respecting their rights. The idea of legal paternalism in ethical reasoning is somewhat of a kind gesture from the Government to try to help individuals from themselves in the assumption that those individuals do not know what is best for them.
This, above all else, is what gets to me. I can just about endure the inconvenience, I can almost stomach the misleading nonsense, but I simply cannot abide the way these advertisements are aimed at exploiting our insecurities. It is truly immoral and it raises real concerns about what is seen as acceptable in terms of commercial advertising. Thus, advertising in general repulses me. It feeds off our vulnerabilities and is suffocating our society.
If this is an acceptable form of payment, how might you ensure that it is ethically sound and that no power differential exists between you and the client? According to licensing boards, Consumer protection agencies, risk management experts, and ethics committees, fair exchange bartering (all bartering for that matter) is largely frowned upon, as there is the potential to create power disparity (power differential) between the councilor and client (Zur, 2011). Moreover, there is a heightened potential for disclosure concerns, boundary
Subliminal advertising is a crafty theory because it prevents the conscious mind from building any arguments of its own against the message, and allows viewers to be more susceptible to following their subconscious intuition which has, unknowingly, been shaped by the advertisement. Subliminal advertising, when misused, is the unethical behaviour behind the exterior mind control that works below the threshold of human awareness. What first needs to be asked is whether it is even possible that content messages can influence a person’s behaviour. If this were not the case, advertising would be an irrelevant concept as it would not matter what types of content or messages are relayed to people, as they simply would not buy into it. In any case, the advertising industry has been more than willing to put forth millions of dollars to discover whether or not this really is the case and if so, through what means is the message most likely to hit home and persuade the viewer to go out and buy their product.
It is produced from a feeling of indignation and intolerance for the conduct that takes place in prostitution. That feeling brings the opponents to believe that the society finds itself in a vulnerable position. In this vulnerable state, the community becomes threatened by immorality, but how can they determine whether or not sex for money is immoral? Perhaps, one would consider a profession in taking people’s homes that have been affected by the Recession more criminal than prostitution, but that occupation by no means criminalized. This brings one to the conclusion that it is impossible to assume there is one shared morality because different opinions exist.
The monopolistic behavior could affect the competition negatively and damage the smaller competitors. The customers made the wrong decisions based on Premier Fitness’ misleading advertising and resulted the customers suffered financial losses. Premier Fitness has violated many of the “dos” and “Don’ts” in its advertising. For example, excessive small print disclaimer was used in its advertisement. The fine print failed to change the general impression conveyed by an advertisement.
Relativism relies on personal and cultural norms to determine what is right and wrong. This is not a valid source of morality because what is socially acceptable is not always what is right. There was a point in time when slavery was socially acceptable but that does not make it right. Furthermore, the secular humanist is a consequentialist, which means ethical choices are judged by their results (http://www.secularhumanism.org). The result of this moral compass is an unstable platform for truth; as a result secular humanism supports gay marriage, abortion, and euthanasia.
Such “weasel words” explained in this article show how advertisements easily persuade people to buy their products. Even though advertisers have to be careful with what they say in ads, they are not responsible for how the reader takes it. The article “The Language of Advertising” by Charles A. O’Neill argues Lutz’s idea because he believes that advertisements might indeed be “charming and seductive by far from brainwashing” (370 O’Neill). The main point of this article is to support why everyone thinks for himself or herself and that nobody forces others to agree or disagree with
GlaxoSmithKline Case Study Identify ethical lapses that may have impacted product quality at GSK. GSK’s billions may benefit many stakeholders but certainly cannot prevent lawsuits. Ethical lapses have cost GSK dearly, but more to the detriment of consumers, have impacted product quality. Two of GSK’s drugs, Paxil and Avandia, had their research trials ‘fixed’ to either falsify outcomes or ‘gloss over’ results. The antidepressant Paxil, while alleviating the common symptoms of depression, was found to aggravate side effects, such as “birth defects” and “suicidal tendencies” (page 439).