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Business Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Environmental CSR
        
        Businesses have a responsibility not to destroy the environment
      - Social CSR
        
        Businesses have a responsibility to not mistreat their workers, customers & wider community
    - - All violations of CSR treat people as means which is wrong
  - - - Leads to offshore outsourcing, when a business closes a factory in a 1st world country and opens it in a first world country, losing jobs in FWCs and promoting exploitation in 3WC
      - This also gives businesses political power, destroying the concept of free market capitalism by gaining control over the respective markets
  - - - All shady/unethical business practices are likely to treat people as a mere means, so would be wrong for that reason and deserve whistleblow.
        Furthermore, Kant claims that lying is not universalizable – so lying is always wrong, no matter the situation. This is another reason that telling the truth during whistleblowing is morally right.
    - - it depends on the situation. If the suffering alleviated by the whistleblowing outweighs the suffering caused by effect on the business, then whistleblowing is good, however if the conditions are reversed then whistleblowing is bad.
  - - - Why don't we demand they treat workers better?
        
        That costs money, which would cause the business to lose profit & incentive to open the sweatshops
        
        Primark example clothes were being made by exploited workers in a sweatshop. When the public became away, Primary simply cut ties with the sweatshop. This meant those workers lost their jobs, leaving them worse off.
      - By using Mill's rule util & the harm principle, so long as people are willingly working there, then there is no issue. However, children working is different due to the lack of consent
- - - - We do not understand the damage that whistleblowing might do to the business & employees, so calculation is difficult for whistleblowing
    - - Exploitation of people can be justified to maximise happiness however damaging the environment cannot be.justified.
        
        It is possible to underestimate unhappiness caused by the exploitation and how dangerous it is to grant businesses the right to explot people for the benefit of the many
        
        Rule Util defeats this issue w/ harm principle. we do not need to calculate the moral value of every action
      - Kant's ideas may be worse though, you cannot exploit someone to save a life either
- - - - “Jeff Bezos wants to start a school for kids whose families are underpaid by people like Jeff Bezos.”
        
        Friedman would say a business has no responsibilities at all, except to fair competition in the free market. So he would reject the idea that CSR is needed at all – but if a business wants to do it for PR, that’s fine. The idea that it’s ‘hypocrisy’ covering up for their exploitative practices, Friedman would reject as nonsense – because he doesn’t think free market capitalism is exploitative.