Business Ethics: Utilitarianism and
Consequentialism a frightening life philosophy
As part of my studies I'm recently following a Business Ethics
course.
Just recently as part of the studies we were introduced to a really
weird ethical theory whose originator and forefather was Jere
Bentham
To sum up the ethics perspective that Jeremy Bentham suggests as
the highest possible moral is contained in the phrase:
"the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people"
The core of the philosophy so it's really hard to resist it. From a
Christian perspective I would say this perspective is openly
satanic, since it finds the pleasure as the greatest and ultimate
human goal.
Jeremy Bentham has quite a lot of wild ideas whose noways are very
well implemented in society though many people doesn't really
realize it.
In Utilitarianism and it's subdivision called Consequentialism
, what really important is not the action we took but the the
action outcome (consequence).
In Consequentialism and Utilitarianism there is no a clear
conception about good and evil. But instead of good and evil are
adopted the idea that everything could be measured in pleasure and
pain. Therefore the real purpose of people's life is reaching the
maximum pleasure for everybody ..
Below I present you with two videos to give you a brief overview on
what does Consequentialists believe and a very simple example to
illustrate what this ethical system represents:
Just to close the post I give you a video to show you actually an
example of How the Ford Company used Consequentialism
philosophycal approach to save money for R&D and Car safety
when designing their Ford Pinto
The company analysists sat down and calculated the monetary value
of changing the card design which were prone of explosions if the
oil tank is hit with a very low speed from behind with another
vehicle and matched it against the possible life victioms if the
car is just produced without the necessary car safety to be
implemented calculating the costs for possible car crashes and the
victims:
The video is really shocking and raises quite an interesting
discussions ...
I think people should start getting aware of the Dangers of
corporatios behaving under the Utilirianistic ways in their daily
company activities and start boycotting the company products before
it's too late.