Such an action also sets a bad precedent for any future Apple product as people will want to wait to see if the price drastically drops after it has been available for a while or people may continue to be late adopters of the product. In the worst case scenario, some people may never actually get around to purchasing the product because any day the price might drop and they never wish to purchase it before that happens. In essence, they are paralyzed from ever making the purchase. Deontology is also easily contrasted with utilitarianism. Whereas utilitarianism regards each individual as equivalent to each other individual and the emphasis is on the greatest number of individuals impacted, deontology focuses on the rights of an individual. Each individual has rights and each one is to be respected. Following these lines, if there is an action that would benefit many, but would trample on the rights of one, it would not be considered as a viable, ethical option. For example, in this day and age when so many companies (e.g. Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom) are in the headlines for scandals, it becomes tempting for a company that is suspected of wrongdoing to quickly name a scapegoat and expeditiously put the matter to bed. While this action may curry favor with the suspicious public and save many innocent employees’ positions, such behavior would not be considered ethical under the deontological moral system as the scapegoat’s rights have been violated. To aid your understanding, the same example would be considered an ethical choice according to utilitarianism because the greatest good for the greatest number of people was served.
Such an action also sets a bad precedent for any future Apple product as people will want to wait to see if the price drastically drops after it has been available for a while or people may continue to be late adopters of the product. In the worst case scenario, some people may never actually get around to purchasing the product because any day the price might drop and they never wish to purchase it before that happens. In essence, they are paralyzed from ever making the purchase. Deontology is also easily contrasted with utilitarianism. Whereas utilitarianism regards each individual as equivalent to each other individual and the emphasis is on the greatest number of individuals impacted, deontology focuses on the rights of an individual. Each individual has rights and each one is to be respected. Following these lines, if there is an action that would benefit many, but would trample on the rights of one, it would not be considered as a viable, ethical option. For example, in this day and age when so many companies (e.g. Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom) are in the headlines for scandals, it becomes tempting for a company that is suspected of wrongdoing to quickly name a scapegoat and expeditiously put the matter to bed. While this action may curry favor with the suspicious public and save many innocent employees’ positions, such behavior would not be considered ethical under the deontological moral system as the scapegoat’s rights have been violated. To aid your understanding, the same example would be considered an ethical choice according to utilitarianism because the greatest good for the greatest number of people was served.
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