1. How does UPS’s approach toward sustainability impact the triple bottom line? Be specific Sustainability is regarded as a goal of any business. The accounting framework, to support sustainability goal is called as the triple bottom line (TBL).It focus on performance of an organization with the interrelated dimensions of profits, people and the planet. UPS accelerated progress towards it sustainability goal as stated in its 13th annual sustainability report created impacts on triple bottom lines:
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Information about Situation Ethics The elements of situation ethics were described by Joseph Fletcher, its leading modern proponent, like this: · Moral judgments are decisions, not conclusions. · Decisions ought to be made situationally, not prescriptively. · We should seek the well-being of people, rather than love principles. · Only one thing is intrinsically good, namely, love: nothing else. · Love, in this context, means desiring and acting to promote the wellbeing of people. · Nothing
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1. Shaw and Barry distinguish two different forms of utilitarianism. What are these two forms? Briefly describe each and use examples. The two forms of utilitarianism are act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Act utilitarianism states we must ask ourselves what the consequences of a particular act in a particular situation will be for all those affected. If its consequences bring more net good than those of any alternative course of action, then this action is the right one and the one
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or pleasure. I believe that’s one reason why people donate money to the needy. Singers idea of helping the needy doesn’t necessarily bring about the greatest good for the greatest need of people though. Hardin’s article captures the essence of utilitarianism. You can’t maximize the number of people and happiness. He kind of explained this if we keep upping the demand of food we won’t pay attention to the clean beaches, unspoiled forest, and solitude. We’ll forget about the other important things.
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In “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” Peter Singer’s main argument is that everyone has a moral obligation to do something good for those that lack medical care, shelter and food. Singer believes that we could all do something to help without harming one’s self. He does not want anyone to be harmed, that is why Singer believes that suffering in any other form of famine deaths is absolutely wrong. To Singer, he has a strong feeling that everyone has the power to prevent all of this from happening.
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approach, John Stuart Mill defines utilitarianism as a concept were “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.” In other words Mill said that an action is right if produces happiness and wrong if that action reverse happiness. He also stated that some pleasures are higher than others, and what produces greater happiness is the right thing to do. But, there exists objections to the utilitarianism as the individual rights are
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Peter Singer’s main argument in his essay “Famine Affluence and Morality” is that we, in affluent countries, have a moral obligation to give equally and substantially to those suffering across the globe. Thus, he would refute any claim that there is moral justification for people to care more about those close by than those far away. His Principle of Sacrifice highlights this idea: If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable
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This video shows a theory of ethics, utilitarian bioethics that is a branch of ethics and recommends directing medical resources where they will have a more lasting effect for good. It is used implicitly in some health planning decisions, such as the use of quality-adjusted life years and the concept of triage, but it is controversial in many other cases. Utilitarian bioethics is based on the premise that the distribution of resources is a zero-sum game, so logically medical decisions must be based
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In my opinion I believe that it does make sense to use utilitarian reasoning when deciding on how to fight a war. The utilitarian view is seen as being morally right if you can exert more happiness and pleasure than pain and unhappiness in that instance. Therefore when the U.S. Army had to decide whether it was morally right to attack the Nazi’s, they then evaluated how many people it would cause pain to and the amount of happiness it would also exert. By attacking the Nazi’s we were able to save
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Now that we have reviewed act utilitarian and how it applies to the Jim’s example, lets proceed to the second moral theory for this paper. Rule consequentialism may be seen similar to act utilitarian, because it has the same principle of selecting the action that its consequence provides the most pleasure over pain. However, main difference between the two moral theories is that rule consequentialism has one more qualification for any action to be morally good, instead of just judging the pure result
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