Formulating a Moral Judgment
GB 507 Business Ethics
Ethics means different things to different people. “Simply stated, ethics refers to the standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in many situations in which they find themselves-as friends, parents, children, citizens, businesspeople, teachers, professionals and so on” (Velasquez, 1988, n.p.). In the essay “Made in the U.S.A. –Dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq…” there are many ethically dilemmas that are presented. The behaviors as well as the future consequences of the companies that are participating in these activities need to be questioned. This paper will discuss my moral judgment against the practice of dumping products in other countries.
The essay “Made in the U.S.A. –Dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq…” focuses on the moral dilemma of dumping products that are banned or deemed too dangerous for usage in the United States. The essay mentioned a few products in particular that were dumped in mostly Third world countries. Some of the products were flame retardant pajamas that were banned in the U.S. due to the toxicity of the chemicals in them that were later found to cause kidney cancer in children, baby pacifiers that were known to cause choking in infants, tainted wheat and barley that was treated with an organic mercury pesticide, and the Dalkon Shield which caused women to get pelvic inflammatory infections, blood poisoning, and tubal pregnancies all of which can result in death. Companies who chose to dump their products abroad did this with the sole motivation for bigger profits. I personally feel that this practice is despicable.
I work in the women’s healthcare industry. One of the products that I sell is an intrau ...