Bribery, Laws, and Morality
Bribery, Laws, and Morality
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After reading the article “U.S. firms say foreign-bribe law lacks clarity” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-firms-say-costly-foreign-bribe-law-lacks-clarity/2011/07/05/gIQAB50jTI_story.html ) think about the ethical issue involved in practices of global bribery.
Assess this issue from the point of views of respectively act-utilitarianism, rule-utilitarianism, and deontology.
Act-utilitarianism which means one and only one moral obligation and every action is to be judged according to one and only one moral obligation. There have different situation, like business people, the rule is time is money, more and more people do bribery because that make economies development.
Rule-utilitarianism which means one and only one moral obligation not applied to individual actions but moral codes, what moral rules a society should adopt for happiness and rules as the basic for distinguishing between right and wrong actions. In Rule – utilitarianism, this is not correct, is anti-social behavior.
Utilitarianism which means acting in order to produce the greatest possible balance of “good” over “bad” for everyone attested by our actions. This is not wrong, because to stand in the Angle of the interests, the personal income increased, companies to speed up the efficiency. Even if we know this is immoral, but with business interests as the starting point, and can’t say this is dislocation behavior.
Do you think that there’s a way in which a deontologist could justify this type of “bribery”? In other words, can you imagine a maxim that allows you to justify bribery in these cases? If you cannot, provide at least two examples of maxims that do not work, and explain why.
I think in a particular case, can bribe, even we know that is moral behavior. From the perspective of the Act – utilitarianism which means one and only one moral obligation and every action is to be judged according to one and only one moral obligation. For this case, for business the rule is and only is money, so we can not say bribery is doesn’t work.