Ford Pinto Case

During the Ford Pinto scandal that occurred in the 1970’s, Ford executives failed to take action to correct a potentially fatal flaw in the Pinto’s design that causing a fire hazard due to disconnecting the fuel line from the fuel tank during rear-end collisions. In an attempt to compete with the foreign subcompact market, Ford rushed the Pinto leading to “one of the shortest production planning periods in modern automotive history: just 25 months, when the normal time span was 43 months” (Sherefkin, 2003). Once the flaw was discovered executives responded with what is best in line with Bandura’s moral neutralization mechanism by showing “disregard or distortion of the consequences” (Pollock, pp. 97, 2017). Ford executives obviously felt that the importance of rushing a product to the market and ignoring vital safety needs of a recall superseded the risk of harm to their customers. Chicago still continues to struggle to resolve issues caused by the Jon Burge scandal. Jon Burge along with “a shadowy crew of police detectives accused of torturing men in custody, eliciting false confessions that sent many of those men to prison” (Schuppe, 2015). According to Bandura, several moral …show more content…
The mishandling of user’s private information has become a reoccurring in recent years by several technology powerhouses. Jodi Flowers, an attorney involved in a lawsuit pending against Facebook, states “If you look at the history of Zuckerberg, he makes promises over and over to people about privacy, and then his reaction when those promises aren't met? You get, 'Gosh, we're sorry.' Then, things move along” (McDermott, 2018). This exudes Bandura’s “disregard or distortion of the consequences” (Pollock, pp. 97, 2017), disregarding both consequences that could be assessed to the company and consequences caused to individuals by mishandling their