Manufacturers should have special obligations to consumers and society to a certain extent. It is the responsibility of the manufacturers to make sure that the products they produce are safe and harmless. However, these responsibilities are limited because there are things that not everyone can foresee as being harmful. Hindsight is always 20/20. Taking Mattel feeding doll for example. They were not able to predict that this doll would cause so much issue with consumers. However, they did the right thing by making the massive recall. If society put blames on the manufacturers on everything that is harmful, it creates an unbalance trays of responsibilities.
Mattel has been extremely effective in encouraging ethical and legal conduct.
Mattel has been extremely effective in encouraging ethical and legal conduct.