Commerce Essay

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1. Is sol levin running a business 'just like any other business', or is his company open to moral criticism? defend your answer by appeal to moral principle. Sol Levin is running a business like any other business person in the world. However I think the type of business he is in open to moral criticism. I found it hard to make the same decision. I do not have it in me to buy blood at a quarter and sell it for a dollar. In the world I live in, blood is life and you give life for free. If I were a firefighter, I would pledge to lay my life for another. Thus this idea is foreign to me. 2. Did plasma international strike a fair bargain with the West Africans who supplied their blood to the company? Or is plasma guilty of exploiting them in some way? Plasma international purchased blood form poor South African people for 15 cents to the pint. Then they sold it here in the US for up to 25 cents a pint. I believe it absolutely is the exploitaion of poor people to further the success a few. A fair market value could have been paid at the rate it would have been paid in the US 7. Many believe that commercialization is increasing in all areas of modern life. if so, is it something to be applauded or condemned? is it wrong to treat certain things-such as human organs-as commodities? When it comes to commercialization of the world today I do believe there are things that should not be sold. Anything that comes from human such as blood, organs or even stem cells should not be sold. Selling these items creates a situation where people will do desperate things to survive and possibly cause harm to others to get what they
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