made the deal with someone

Identification of ethical issues ● Breach of contract ● Potentially endangering the lives of people ● Can make U-sub loses lots of money as it have to find another company and re do the

contract and its legal fees ● If u-sub sold these torpedoes to other companies, then the other company can lose

money if there was an issue with the torpedoes safety Identification of stakeholders

● Systems engineering company shareholders ● U-sub company ● The legal system ● Roscoe ● The boss of roscoe ● People's lives that can be endangered if the torpedoes exploded and their families ● Any company that purchases these torpedoes from U-sub

Analysis of issues based on the ethical theories Ethical fundamentalism: It all depends on what/who is the outside source or central figure for ethical guidelines and what are their moral codes Utilitarianism: Which is to choose the alternative that would provide the greatest good to society Which is to report the systems engineering company to the police after gathering sufficient evidence for it Kantian ethics: Which is people owing moral duties that are based on universal rules These moral guidelines are generally related to human right which would call for reporting the crime to the police Social justice theory: Which revolves around fairness and presenting it as the essence of justice Deceiving U-sub company and faking safety tests would be considered as unfair practices and would be considered as a crime Ethical relativism: Individuals decide what is ethical based on their own feelings as to what is right or wrong Which provide the greatest level of flexibility to the systems engineering company as the feelings of people can vary based on their different situations; thus, you can always find people

who feels that the systems engineering company’s actions are morally justified given their hard financial situation. Discussion of options (Advantages and disadvantages of each)

● Give in to his boss demands and sign them Advantages from an ethical perspective:

○ If it is hard to find another job and he really need the job so it can hurt him to leave the job

Disadvantages from an ethical perspective: ○ All the issues in the first question

● Leave the work and forget about it

advantages: ○ He won't get potentially into trouble with the systems engineering company and

they won't potentially file a lawsuit against him disadvantages:

○ He will be allowing for a crime to occurs and allow for such practices to happen as the company will simply bring someone else to sign the papers and skip the testing which lead to all the moral issues mentioned in the first question

● Tell U-sub what have happened, but try to find a way so it won't be revealed that roscoe

have blown the whistle advantages:

○ Also preventing a crime from happening, its the safest choice disadvantages:

○ U-sub may not report them to the police which means that an unethical company won't be punished properly and can continue doing immoral practices

● Report his boss to the police

advantages: ○ Doing the moral and legal thing which is the best way to prevent all the moral

issues presented in question one disadvantages:

○ He can lose his job and if this goes public it can potentially be an obstacle to get hired in other companies as lots of companies dont like whistleblowers

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Proposal of decision It all depends on the his personal situation, if he desperately need this job, he should simply report it to U-sub which is the weaker moral decision. If he dont need this job so much and believe that he is in a good position and will be fine then he should report it to the police which is the higher moral decision Skip the testing and sign the paperwork is worst thing to do as it is extremely unethical, leave the work and forget about it is also unethical and rejected but it is not as bad as skipping the test and signing the paperwork