Friday, April 16, 2010


These three words; integrity, commitment, and truth I believe play a large role in ethics. I believe that all people should be ethical, not just when it comes to business but in all aspects of life. i feel that it is important to be ethical because in a lot of ways to be ethical it means you need to be fair and that it the best way to make sure all people are being taken care of equally. If no one was ethical people would go out of business so fast because like it has been brought up in class before people don't want to do business with people who are unethical. I think that it can be hard at times to be ethical because in a business you are there for pretty much one thing only, and that thing is to make money. There are a lot of things that are unethical that you can do to make money. Like say you had a service that some people wanted and some people actually needed. You want all of the business that you can get so for the people who just wanted your service you give them and okay price on it, just to make sure that they use you. For the people who need it you charge an arm and a leg for because you know that it's not a choice for them. It is completely unethical, but you make more money. There will always be people out there who don't care at all about ethics and will do anything they can to get to the top, in some situations they are way more successful and this is what makes it hard to try to do things in an ethical manor, but I still believe in ethics no matter what.

2 comments:

  1. People need to report more unethical behavior than they do. A lot of people are embarrassed they were taken advantage of or just don't want to take the time to report it. I think if more was reported and made available to people it would force businesses to be more responsible.

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  2. Reading what you posted about how business would come to a grinding halt if everyone were unethical, I think that you might find Immanuel Kant's philosophy of categorical imperative interesting. Here's a link to it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative

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