Andy Miller Case Study

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Register to read the introduction… His moral values should have directed him to care for people rather than allow himself to be hired to commit a crime. The prosecution proves that both Wheeler and Miller violated the law and are hence guilty. Andy is thus awarded a very huge compensation which he himself does not live to receive as he collapses in court and die. One’s moral values can never truly change. By the fact that one places themselves in an available position that they can be hired to perform a crime it means that their moral values are naturally bent. That is the real them in any case and they do not have an excuse to it. Just like one receiving a bribe, they are able to do so due to the level of their moral values. I hence do not think that one’s moral values can …show more content…
Andy was tortured psychologically by having his crimes staged and then his unfair dismissal from his employment. He was a very good family man who knew the difference between a family and profession. He thus could separate the two comfortably and as such would never allow the two to have a conflict of interest. Despite his own sexual orientation, he was still competent enough in his job. Wheeler on their part after being sued defended their crime by saying that Andy Beckett had allowed promiscuity to interfere with his professionalism. To them, his promiscuity was the reason that he had contracted the HIV virus. The debate in question is to whether Beckett has been immoral in his private life. The conclusion by the jury is that immorality is a very subjective norm and as such, sacking Beckett from his job is the most unfair thing to be done to anyone. His discrimination of his sexual orientation and his personal life which they consider as sexually immoral is out of context with his profession. They really did not have to act how they did. They feel that his anonymous sex with another man has been his downfall in the pornographic theater of

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