(1) Ethical Assessment of Hank McKinnell’s Actions and the WARN Memo Based on the case study, it is my opinion that unfortunately Hank McKinnell did not handle the Medicare situation in an ethical manor, however, Hank McKinnell’s actions with regards to the WARN memo were ethically neutral, as this was a transactional requirement on the part of the government. Three key areas that could be considered as being ethically questionable are as follows: The first ethically questionable decision on Mr. McKinnell’s part was that he made a deceitful announcement regarding the benefit of the merger, which then did not come true. Mr. McKinnell stated that the merger would enhance research the development pipelines and
We promote goodness and happiness using nature and experience, we can work out thus, that murder, for example, is wrong because committing murder does not cause happiness. Ergo, Ethical Naturalism produces universal laws which can be used as a benchmark to measure our own and other people’s moral conduct. Meta-ethics on the other hand believes that no ethical language is universal and objective. Non-naturalists and non-cognitivists such as Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore believe that ethical language is subjective, as by claiming that they are objective is committing the ‘naturalistic fallacy’. This states that it is a mistake to define ‘good’ in terms of things that exist (natural properties) that we already
Why is the initial consultation so important? What factors will an ethical therapist cover at this time? The underlining reasons why ethics are vitally important in therapy are not romantic benevolent ideals concerned with altruism but reasons of practicality. It would simply not be effective and sustainable for any therapeutic profession to allow unethical practices to happen, since this behaviour will damage the reputation of the profession at large. It is therefore in the interests of all practitioners to adhere to some sort of rules of conduct.
Factories usually do this to decrease the cost of labor. Another example, when the interest rate on loans decreases, companies would focus on capital intensive than labor intensive activities. In both cases, the demand for labor decreases. What are the new equilibrium wage rate and employment level? Equilibrium wage rate and employment level goes down.
Finally, there is a dangerous lack of oversight by FDA regulators into the safety violations of companies such as Chemins leading to a reduced rate of public health and safety. Display: There are a number of options available to the Chemins company to deal with the ethical issue of mislabeled products. One is for the company to submit to mandatory testing of their products in order to ensure that what is on the label is what the product actually contains. This testing can be performed at the expense of either the company or the government, though this author believes it is the job of a company to own the regulatory compliance expense of ensuring its products are safe for
Paine used Common Sense as a great tool to let the commoners and less educated to gain some insight on the role and purpose of government. Firstly, Paine makes a distinction between government and society. Paine states: “Society is everything constructive and good that people join together to accomplish. Government, on the other hand, is an institution whose sole purpose is to protect us from our own vices. Government has its origins in the evil of man and is therefore a necessary evil at best.” He goes on to say that “government's sole purpose is to protect life, liberty and property, and that a government should be judged solely on the basis of the extent to which it accomplishes this goal.” Basically, Paine is stating to the common people that they have the opportunity to form their own representation of government and do it in a way that truly represents their wants and needs.
However this would only apply if the embryo is regarded as a rational moral agent but the status of the embryo is unclear. Kant’s example of suicide can be used as in the same way as suicide, embryo testing and research can be seen as a contradiction in nature and therefore is not universalisable. Similarly to embryo research, consequences cannot be considered when looking at the issue of experimenting of humans and is also using people as a means to an end which goes against Kant’s second formula. In the case of testing on prisoners the formula would suggest that you can’t exploit a minority group, such as prisoners, for the sake of majority gain. However May suggests that there may be a duty to take part in non-invasive or riskless research as it would be beneficial to
Public Trust Doctrine Should we take care of ourselves? Are we even capable of doing that? The public trust doctrine is such a writing that says that we cannot in this aspect and that government ultimately must be the ones to do so. The Public Trust Doctrine holds that certain resources are above private ownership and reside in the trust of government for the benefit of the people. It is the duty of government to administer these resources to the highest public interest.
There was concern for prolonging the suffering and an interest in following rules as to limit any harm coming to a human test subject. The hidden agenda of the movie is to portray the medical community as indifferent and to show that medical science has become detached from the needs of those it serves. Movies are rarely true so I investigated the story myself and found many elements of the movies portrayal to be untrue or not mentioned. The movie is very one-sided and dangerously irresponsible. The medical community was not represented correctly charging that medical science only considers the “risk to reward ratio”.
An example of these was the non importation movement. In this movement, Americans stopped buying goods from the British goods as a protest against stamp tax. This action was not defiant in nature and did not call for punishment from the British government. On the contrary, it put a lot of pressure on the government and forced it to react by repealing the stamp act (Greene & Pole, 2004). Violent reactions were, therefore, not effective as they received violent reaction from the government and did not bring the desired change to the colonists.