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Is Shell an Ethical Company?

and BBC Wildlife Magazine has also been argued as hypocritical, hiding the damage that the company causes to wildlife (M2 PressWIR...

Atomic Bomb and Decision Making

"To achieve the desired goals or maximize utility, an actor must choose among certain alternatives" (Model Theory, 2002). The alt...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

Report of Actual Ethical Cases

Anyone working in any area of mental health or social services faces ethical challenges and dilemmas on a regular basis and it is ...

Reactions to Artical on Moral Decision-Making

Valasquez, Andre, Shanks, & Meyer, M. J. wrote an article entitled "Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making" in ...

Business Ethics

This report focuses on one aspect of business ethics that involves decision making. Several issues are discussed such as why ethic...

Something is Rotten in Hondo; An Ethical Case Study

in that area, only fifteen miles down the road, accepting that level of emission as long as the plant is staffed only by Mexican w...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Ethics Issues of the Caltex Plant in South Africa

become complex, as the firm has a duty to the shareholders to undertake business to create profit, potential losses and lost oppor...

A 7-Step Path in Making an Ethical Decision

This essay discusses a scenario involving an ethical dilemma, and then relates the steps taken in making an ethical decision. Thre...

Ethics and San Diego Utility

& Electric (SDG&E) and two other lines touched each other. This resulted in a huge fire in the area (Spagat, 2009). Subsequently, ...

Selecting Between 2 Acceptable and 'Good' Decisions

be seen as a defining moment; the choosing between right and right. There may be several aspects that are considered. Firstly, the...

FDI Influences in India and Iraq

reduce smoking in India (Lamont and Yuk, 2010). However, this has been a controversial decision, not only was cigarette manufactu...

Organizational Behavior, Technology, and Ethics

boiled. Whether this is an observation of something true is debatable, but whether it physically occurs or not, it is useful in m...

Analyzing the Film Adaptation of The Rainmaker by John Grisham

tradition of good vs. evil, the inexperienced novice is cast in the role of David facing off against Goliath, the legal dream team...

Google in China

Googles own definition of acceptability has been difficult in China. Google resisted Chinese censorship for some time, making a C...

Method of Inquiry; Using a Code of Ethics to Help with Decision-Making

philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to th...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

The Film The Glass Shield and Decision Making

In five pages a protagonist's difficult decisions are examined within the context of the 1994 movie with an analysis of ethical co...

Human Service Workers and Ethical Decisions' Guidelines

someone in human services. After all, the most fundamental component of human services work is the fact that it is grounded in mor...

Pricing and Research and Development Investment Decisions for Handheld

The writer complete simulation provided by the student, where decisions are made regarding the level of investment in research and...

Three Questions in Philosophy

humans, it is not necessarily the best thing to do. Kant also supports a categorical imperative principle which suggests that some...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Lex Service Group CAT Analysis

roughly 12 percent of the displaced employees a change at relocation within the company. Forty percent would be hired by the new b...

Questions on Ethics

actions that he would normally finds repugnant. Similarly, the captain of the guard who compels Joe to commit murder undermines Jo...

Justice and Ethics

Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

The Process of Decision Making

factual data to meet a set goal or objective. There is a very basic concept to this, which is the company is at A, they want to g...

Religious Prejudice and Ethics

perhaps for good reasons but with disastrous results over the long term. Community over self is more obvious and calls to m...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...