MIRO BOARD Flashcards
Who believed taxes are immoral?
Nozick
If a company has to decide between closing a factory and saving 3 mio. or releasing employees and saving 2 mio., …
- Utilitarians
- Libertarians
- Kant
- argue to close the factory
- argue its ok if employees accept by free will
- argues that its immoral
What is Rawls’ ‘difference principle’?
A. Ensuring everyone has equal liberties
B. Justifying inequalities that benefit the least advantaged
C. Promoting individual rights over societal benefits
D. All of the above
B
Which of the following is a positive moral right
A. the right to choose a job
B. the right to social security
C. the right to property
D. all of the above
B
You bought furniture at a large furniture store for which you have paid a delivery service. The agreed conditions stated “curbside delivery”, however the delivery person was nice
enough to help you carry the furniture up to your apartment. While carrying it up the stairs, the
furniture fell down and got damaged (no guarantee case). The company refuses to exchange the
product. Which approach is the company most likely using to base their argument?
A. Social Cost View
B. Due care View
C. Contractual View
D. All of the above
C
If Inditex group declared that they decided to internalize all costs into their pricing strategies, what
would probably happen?
A. sales prices of items would increase
B. waste would be reduced
C. costs of the effects of environmental damage would be distributed more justly
D. all of the above
D
What ethical issue arises when advertisements promote unhealthy foods to children, contributing
to childhood obesity?
A. Deceptive information
B. Targeting Vulnerable Audiences
C. Transparencies in Influencer Marketing
D. All of the above
B
What are the 4 steps of ethical behavior?
- Recognizing it’s an ethical situation (harm, temporality, proximity of victims, moral standards)
- Judging the ethical course of action (moral reasoning; biases)
- Deciding on Ethical Action (Utili, Liber, Rights,…)
- Carrying out the ethical action (responsibility, ethics)
- Recognizing a situation is ethical
How do we approach this step?
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4.
- who is harmed/ victims
- temporality
- moral standards
- obstacle: moral disengagement: euphemistic labelling; rationalizing actions; diminishing comparision; dehumanizing; responsibility; harm)
- Judging ethical course - how do we approach this step?
1.
2.
3.
- take into account biases (world, oneself, others)
- do moral reasoning (moral standards; factual information; moral judgement)
- moral standards characteristics (harm, priority, authority, universality, impartiality, emotions)
- Deciding on ethical action
How do we approach this step? what are our lenses?
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3.
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5.
- ethical climate, culture and moral seduction
- utilitarianism (Bentham, mill)
- rights and duties approach (pos, neg, contractual right) / nozick, Locke, Kant
- justice and fairness (rawls, distributive, compensatory)
- ethics of care (caring relationships, partial and relationships oriented)
- Carrying out Ethical Decision
What is it influenced by? What to keep in mind?
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2.
3.
- influenced by strength/ weakness of will, locus if control
- defined by moral responsibility (causality, knowledge, freedom)
- Edward freeman stakeholder view vs Milton friedman shareholder view
Utilitrianism | What are the key features?
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2.
3.
- greatest good for greatest nr of people
- consequences of cost benefit analysis
- happiness and absence of pain
- can be opposed to rights and be unjust
John Stuart Mill | What’s his key idea?
- respect for individual rights as the most scared and binding part of morality
Rights and Duties Approach | What are the key features? (4) Who are the main dudes? (3)
- right = entitlement to sth
- negative = don’t hinder other in doing what they have right to do
- positive= help and support what others have a right to do
- contractual = filly informed and free when making contract
- Nozick, Locke, Kant
