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With advanced medical treatments getting more accessible to public, there has been a scarcity of organs for transplantation for the past few decades. In order to meet the enormous demand, alternative sources have been adopted from condemned prisoners to supplement the supply. In particular, the practice of harvesting the organs of condemned prisoners for use in transplant operations has become an open secret in China. As the number whom she executes has decreased by 75% in recent years, shortage
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justification of inequalities. A utilitarian may view the companies’ actions and consequences under four of utilitarianism’s characteristics: consequentialism, hedonism, minimalism, and universalism, as listed in a business ethics textbook (W. P. Kissick, Contemporary Utilitarianism 17-18). Firstly, and theoretically the most significant in context, as consequentialism involves decision validity, the three companies’ intentions matches this principle, for their main goal, the ultimate consequence, included
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According to the National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium, the Ethical Standard 3.3 states that, “the victim assistance provider refrains from behaviors that communicate victim blame, suspicion regarding victim accounts of crime, condemnation for past behavior, or other judgmental anti-victim sentiment”. The NAVSC elaborates further on the Ethical Standard 3.3 definition: “To maintain professional trust with the victim and effectively advocate on his or her behalf, a victim service provider
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Instructions 1. Construct a template that will be the guide throughout the writing process. This will improve how the document looks, feels and reads. Consistency in these three items is key to a good case study. 2. Draw your reader in with a unique title. It should attract the reader and make them want to read more. 3. Begin writing the paper. Start by identifying the problem that is being explored in the case study. 4. Explore the problem, including cause, effect and theory
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ubyuhb hu b Under this form of ethics you can't justify an action by showing that it produced good consequences, which is why it's sometimes called 'non-Consequentialist'. The word 'deontological' comes from the Greek word deon, which means 'duty'. Duty-based ethics are usually what people are talking about when they refer to 'the principle of the thing'. Duty-based ethics teaches that some acts are right or wrong because of the sorts of things they are, and people have a duty to act accordingly
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Prescriptive Approaches to Ethics at Enron Enron was a global energy firm that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001. The firm’s senior managers had engaged in fraud for an extended period through a scheme in which partnerships owned by the managers could receive payment for goods and services never provided to Enron. In addition, the firm’s external auditing firm, Arthur Andersen, was complicit in the fraud by knowingly certifying false financial statements as accurate. Arthur Anderson participated
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sponse Response Paper Stephanie Brockman PHIL 201 McCloskey Responses Introduction H. J. McCloskey gets most of his strong statements against the belief by asking the atheist to provide sufficient proof that God exists. However, McCloskey is not the only person who is unsure and asks questions God’s existence based on personal beliefs or influence. From the beginning many people have had questions about God and his existence. He wrote numerous books on atheism between 1960 and 1980 including
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Assignment 1 Individual Case Study In recent decades, Corporate Social Responsibility has become one of the major areas of concern to corporations and the question, “Are companies moral agents?” is quite a debatable question among various thinkers. With the raised level of awareness of consumers regarding the impact of corporate activities on environment and society at large, corporations are obliged to put serious efforts towards execution of environmental, social and ethical procedures in
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Assess Utilitarianism The idea Utilitarianism is a branch of consequentialism (the consequences of your actions are the basis of which morality is judged) which are both part of normative ethics. Utilitarianism can be summed up easily by describing it as the actions which “creates the greatest happiness to the greatest number” as the most moral one. A key philosopher that supports Utilitarianism was Bentham, he says we live to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Bentham attempts to calculate the perfect
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