The Case of “El Diablo” E-Book
MAN 104: Ethical and Moral Issues in Business and Management

“NO, I WOULD NOT.”
The Chartoff Publishing is as good as any other commercial publishing house doing business, to release their own e-book, the El Diablo Series as long as it is legal. And if they do not, then they should consider drafting a new Articles of Incorporation for the rebirth of a new business.
And since I am the one making the call, yes, we might just do that.
Changing the Articles of Incorporation might sound far too drastic and exaggerated for the purpose of resolving the ethical dilemma of the subject case study but it is enough to drive the point home. There was no very clear indication on how vulgar or obscene the El Diablo series might be, neither there were excerpts nor a detailed plot with which to accurately judge the potential harm and influence it might cause to its audiences. However, the hints are sufficiently suggestive to reason that releasing this product to the market would be a serious breach on different ethical standards as well as to one or two models of ethical resolution.
The objective then of this paper is to perform an overall analysis on various factors at play that would justify the decision of “not selling the product” as ethically correct. The approach is to plot the arguments that support the alternative decision, that is—to sell the product and indicate why this would not work.
And this is assuming people would care to do an ethical act even if the whole world does not.

There is enough violence without a book or two to influence them.
While it cannot be denied that the media (and that includes all sort of communication tools, the web, books, movies, televisions, newspapers, etc.) has a great potential to influence and mold minds depending on their content, it is important to note that criminal acts are mostly