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Ethical Issues In HB2 Law

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When it comes to ethics involving controversial topics such as the HB2 law, which permits transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with instead they have to use the bathroom that identifies with the sex they were born with. There are two different ways to look at this situation. Obviously the main perspectives are from opposing sides. The purpose of the boycotts are to create social justice and by businesses contributing to the movement, they are trying to protest a political action but does it only affect the intended target? Big corporations such as Paypal and The NBA have contributed to the the protest to show support to the LBGTQ community. According to a video on USAtoday.com, Paypal CEO explains their reasoning behind revoking their expansion to Charlotte, …show more content…

From Paypals perspective, They are performing a good deed by not supporting a town for a political outcome. Yes the overall intentions are to target the city but who else is being affected by this action? What about the employees that were already hired to work at this building? Do all those people lose their jobs? That is a lot of employees that will no longer have the opportunity to be employed at paypal even if they did not support the HB2 law, they are still impacted. So is the loss of the potential jobs justifiable because it was for a good cause? The utilitarianism theory can also be applied to the opposing side as well. Gov. Pat McCrory has explained that the reason he passed the law was because he felt that the privacy of the citizens of North Carolina would be violated with allowing the opposite gender to use which every bathroom they identified with. Which is an appropriate reason for the mass majority but still is not fair to those affected. The Deontology theory i feel best fits with the businesses retracting their association with the town because their going above and beyond to

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