The pinto was one of Ford’s biggest mishaps that happened in the 1970s.It caused a lot of pain to a number of people even though Ford could have prevented by installing an 11 dollars part. Their thought process for not installing the part was due to the lower profit margin and the higher price that the vehicle would have been sold . If Ford were to recall the vehicles sold to the consumer then it would cause pain to a lot of people instead of causing pain to a small number of people if there were no recall. The cost would benefit them if there were no recall since it would only cause them 49 million dollars instead of 137 million dollars for the “pinto drivers if the car is redesigned”. So from a Utilitarian’s stand point it is better to make
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He knew that lives would be lost in the most painful way and lives will be affected but he chose to ignore the warning signs of the test that his engineers conducted. He could have stopped the production for a redesign but he value money more than the human life. He should be responsible for his action of causing a lot of lives lost and be put on trial for his lies to the consumer like Lee Joon who did a similar thing to the public. Lee Joon was the president of Sampoong Group and was responsible for the collapsed of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea that claimed the lives of 502 people and injured another 937 people. He was in a similar situation as Ford in that he knew that his building was unsafe to the general public but decided against the advice of others and built it anyway. There were signs of the building failing such as cracks in the concrete similar to Fords gas tank tests but they both ignore the warnings and told the public that their product was safe. In the case of Lee he had to pay out about $350 million in damages and he was sentenced to prison for charges negligence and bribery and convicted on manslaughter. So Ford should be put in a similar situation where he would be in court to defend his case and prove what he did was
He knew that lives would be lost in the most painful way and lives will be affected but he chose to ignore the warning signs of the test that his engineers conducted. He could have stopped the production for a redesign but he value money more than the human life. He should be responsible for his action of causing a lot of lives lost and be put on trial for his lies to the consumer like Lee Joon who did a similar thing to the public. Lee Joon was the president of Sampoong Group and was responsible for the collapsed of the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea that claimed the lives of 502 people and injured another 937 people. He was in a similar situation as Ford in that he knew that his building was unsafe to the general public but decided against the advice of others and built it anyway. There were signs of the building failing such as cracks in the concrete similar to Fords gas tank tests but they both ignore the warnings and told the public that their product was safe. In the case of Lee he had to pay out about $350 million in damages and he was sentenced to prison for charges negligence and bribery and convicted on manslaughter. So Ford should be put in a similar situation where he would be in court to defend his case and prove what he did was