Normative ethics

the services of Instragram. People joined and agreed to the terms expecting their privacy promises will uphold and was kept private for a limited time. According to the IEEE code of ethics, it is unreasonable for Instagram to share and use user data with third parties such as Facebook and advertiser…

Managing the Risks of Global, Bribery in Business Case Analysis for ACCT 6390 – Spring 2016 Ebraheem Almakrami The issue of bribery has long been considered unethical and unfair. This classification led people to invest in finding ways to justify bribery differently based on their culture. Bribery could be descried as gifts in many countries like Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. In other parts of the world like Brazil, Russia, India, and China, bribery is looked at as…

Is It Wrong to Kill a Whale? Over the past three weeks, there has been a continuous stream of ethical examinations and arguments on the controversial whaling issue. After sifting through and deciphering what is significant and what cannot be considered credible, a conclusion was made. This paper will analyze Peter Singer’s consequentialist view and two deontological theories and apply these theories to the whaling issue. In order to decide whether whaling is ethical or not, one must understand…

Kantian ethics operate opposite of utilitarianism: the means and the motivations behind an action are what matter, not the end that is achieved. In this ethical system, moral truths known as categorical imperatives act as rules that one is morally obligated to follow…

a Code of Ethics, a framework for ethical conduct in the field of healthcare. The code states all activities, personal and professional, must be conducted with honesty, integrity, fairness, good faith, and respect (Pierce, 1996). Pierce (1996) states, administrators must “employ sound business practices” (para. 6) in all leadership decisions. Thus, leading by example, administration creates a climate consistent with the organization’s mission and vision for all to…

People often do or take parts in acts that are not only morally wrong but also extremely painful to the victim. When someone is order by a higher authority figure they do what was ordered forgetting about their morals and the consequences that it may have. It is important to understand that just because the order was given by a person with a high status or rank it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. In 1963 Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University carried out an experiment where he…

Ethical relativism is the belief that there are some moral beliefs that only hold to a society or individual while differing from a neighboring civilization or person. If one was to assume that ethical relativism was true, would moral progress be possible? Would the act of improving while perfect be possible? The answer is no. The first process that must be done before diving into this question is defining the types of relativism. In the world of ethical relativism, there is a divide and…

do research while remaining ethical. Some situations involve tough decisions based on ethics, and cannot always be looked at in the cultural perspective of the one doing research. Such cases are beneficial and can help educate others about the decisions anthropologists have to make without being ethnocentric. Two anthropologists, Terry Kelly and Rose Stone, were given tough situations revolving around ethics. In the end, they both made the right decisions because they maintained the ideas of…

The Coca-Cola Company faced the risk of losing their business in the University of Michigan due to their unethical practices in India and Columbia. In the spring of 2004, the University of Michigan created a Vender Code of Conduct. The goal of this code of conduct was to define the standards that the university expected its vendors to uphold. Moreover, the code of conduct instructed vendors to abide by the laws where they operated, and to uphold standards such as nondiscrimination, health, and…

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who had a lot of controversial views on society. In his book “Twilight of the Idols”, there are a lot of different themes being explored of which some include what the Germans are lacking, how moralities have “improved” human beings, why the senses are superior to reason and even the problem with Socrates. One of the statement that we will be focusing on would be “Every individual may be regarded as representing either the ascending or the descending…