Introduction
April is a manager at an IT company that it is struggling with the recent economic recession. She has to decide laying off one employee out of two. Sasha is young, hard worker, and recent hire with no exceeding the expectations in the company, but recently he has improved significantly. The second person is a 50-year-old Carson with twenty-five years work history in the company. He has never been a rising star and he also has difficulty to keep up with the rapid changes in the company. If April asks Carson to go, the company will face the lawsuit from Carson. Thus, April should choose Carson to stay because the harm will company receive with losing Sasha is less than the harm of letting Carson go.
Morally Relevant Facts
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Rawls believes that we should look at the society from the outside without us knowing which role we have in the society. In this case, April is in the society as it is recognized here, as a company and if she was not part of the company, she might have the judgment which is not valid base on the situation which exits in the …show more content…
The harm Sasha will face with leaving the job is less than the harm company and Carson might face economically. Sasha is young and there is so many opportunities ahead of him. With asking him to leave, April made a choice which is good for greatest people affected in this case; company, employees, and Carson. Hedonism which is second element of utilitarianism states that “pleasure is good and pain is bad”. (Tittle, 38) Pleasure here is laying off Sash to save the company from the economic recession and the pain is Sasha loosing his job. Mill the writer of Utilitarianism believes that “we need to maximize good and minimize bad” which it offers “the greatest good for the greatest number. (Tittle, 38) Looking at the company situation, for others to keep their jobs, Sasha should lose his job. The harm company will face with losing a young employee who is familiar with technology compare to Carson is less than when company lays off Carson and it faces the lawsuit. Bentham suggests for measuring the greatest good we can use Hedonistic Calculus (Tittle, 39). With identifying seven aspects of pleasure and pain, he says the result of each action should be measured according to these seven aspects and “the action with total (of hedons, or units) would be the one resulting in the greatest pleasure- it would be the (morally) right one.” (Tittle, 39) With applying the Hedonism Calculus in this case, Bentham says subtract the pain of laying off one of the
April is a manager at an IT company that it is struggling with the recent economic recession. She has to decide laying off one employee out of two. Sasha is young, hard worker, and recent hire with no exceeding the expectations in the company, but recently he has improved significantly. The second person is a 50-year-old Carson with twenty-five years work history in the company. He has never been a rising star and he also has difficulty to keep up with the rapid changes in the company. If April asks Carson to go, the company will face the lawsuit from Carson. Thus, April should choose Carson to stay because the harm will company receive with losing Sasha is less than the harm of letting Carson go.
Morally Relevant Facts
In general, …show more content…
Rawls believes that we should look at the society from the outside without us knowing which role we have in the society. In this case, April is in the society as it is recognized here, as a company and if she was not part of the company, she might have the judgment which is not valid base on the situation which exits in the …show more content…
The harm Sasha will face with leaving the job is less than the harm company and Carson might face economically. Sasha is young and there is so many opportunities ahead of him. With asking him to leave, April made a choice which is good for greatest people affected in this case; company, employees, and Carson. Hedonism which is second element of utilitarianism states that “pleasure is good and pain is bad”. (Tittle, 38) Pleasure here is laying off Sash to save the company from the economic recession and the pain is Sasha loosing his job. Mill the writer of Utilitarianism believes that “we need to maximize good and minimize bad” which it offers “the greatest good for the greatest number. (Tittle, 38) Looking at the company situation, for others to keep their jobs, Sasha should lose his job. The harm company will face with losing a young employee who is familiar with technology compare to Carson is less than when company lays off Carson and it faces the lawsuit. Bentham suggests for measuring the greatest good we can use Hedonistic Calculus (Tittle, 39). With identifying seven aspects of pleasure and pain, he says the result of each action should be measured according to these seven aspects and “the action with total (of hedons, or units) would be the one resulting in the greatest pleasure- it would be the (morally) right one.” (Tittle, 39) With applying the Hedonism Calculus in this case, Bentham says subtract the pain of laying off one of the