Assignment 2, CJ 300

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1. Analyze the following ethical dilemma using the ethical pyramid located in your chapter. (1) What is your Judgement; (2) What are your Moral Rules (state at least three); (3) Apply the ethical system: Ethical Formalism to this dilemma. Please be thorough in your responses. Dilemma: You are a manager of a retail store. You are given permission by the owner of the store to hire a fellow classmate to help out. One day you see the classmate take some clothing from the store. When confronted by you, the peer laughs it off and says the owner is insured, no one is hurt, and it was under $100. “Besides,” says your acquaintance, “friends stick together, right?” What would you do? 1. Stealing from an employer and asking your friend to cover for you is bad. 2. Manipulating a friend is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Lying to someone who gave you an opportunity is wrong. 3. Stealing from a person or business is against the law, and therefore, this situation is illegal and should be reported to the owner immediately. 2. Watch the following video related to the BP offshore rig explosion and reference it http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/20/a_sea_in_flames_ecologist_carl On April 20th, 2010 a British Petroleum offshore rig exploded killing 11 employees and causing one of the largest oil spills in modern history. Investigators soon located the faulty alarm systems. The alarms did not alert because they had been intentionally disconnected close to a year ago. BP had the alarms turned off in order to allow employees to sleep without being interrupted by false alarms thus creating a better functioning workforce. If the alarms were enabled, the rig would have automatically entered shut down mode, virtually eliminating the oil spill. Compose a response to the following questions: Was BP’s original “act” inherently good? Bad? Did they have a duty to act one way or the other? While working conditions are important for any company, completely disabling an alarm so that your workers can sleep is never a good idea. The alarm is there for safety, and should not be disarmed in any situation. If the company was really that worried about the sleeping conditions for the workers, they could have tried to lower the volume or calibrate the alarm to have less frequent false alarms. BP may have thought that they were doing something good for their workers, I can not fathom why they would think it was a goo idea to turn off the only real safety feature. This terrible lapse in judgement got 11 people killed, people who, I am sure, would be woken up in the night for a false alarm than be dead. Safina’s speaks about the events that caused the blowout and portrays another lapse in judgement by BP. Deciding to use an inadequate concrete and pumping a sticky liquid into the well to not have to spend money is morally wrong. BP had a duty to their employees and to the rest of the world to not have such a major disaster
happen in a major gulf. BP failed their employees and their families and impacted thousands of more people by taking shortcuts in their business practices.
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