Ethical Dilemma In The Insider

Throughout the entire movie The insider Russell Crowe character named Dr. Jeffrey Wigand in the movie is faced with so many different personal, business, and ethical dilemmas. The dilemmas start at the beginning when the movie first begins showing that Wigand was just fired from his job at Brown and Williamson office. In the beginning, we can tell that this will be a stressful situation not only for him, but also his family being that his wife was devastated that he lost his job upon finding it out. As the movie progresses Wigand meets with Al Pacino character Lowell Bergman, who wants to find out why he was delivered a package containing information about a big tobacco company. Upon meeting with Bergman Wigand quickly starts to feel the consequences …show more content…
Not only was this affecting him, but also his wife being that she even witnessed an email meant for her husband stating not to tell or they will kill him. Lastly, Wigand was receiving late night phone calls and he found a bullet in his home mailbox The main ethical dilemma that Wigand was facing throughout the movie was finding the strength in him to whistleblower on his previous employers. The reason that he was whistle-blowing is because Brown and Williamson were manipulating the nicotine that was going into the cigarettes through ammonia chemistry to allow the absorption of nicotine more rapidly into the lungs of the consumers which affected not only the brain but also the central nervous system through impact boosting. Brown and Williamson didn’t care that this was harming the consumer’s health by causing them to be more addicted to their products just for the profit they were making from this happening, which Wigand felt was wrong and the public should know what they were really doing and how wrong it …show more content…
The main one being that there were many times where he was not going to have the opportunity to do the interview with Wigand. One being that if Wigand did go against his confidentiality agreement and he was in fact being truthful about what Brown and Williamson were doing to their tobacco products. Then the company he worked for CBS News were being pressured by CBS corporate not to do the interview or show an edited version of the interview based on them possibly being in a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit with Brown and Williamson. As the movie progresses and CBS kept pressing that Bergman drops the story or show the edited version of it they insist that he goes on