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Ethics and Business: This concept was selected because individuals that reside in this society have morals on which they live their lifestyle.
Music is available to download in all places on the internet. Is it ethical to download music? When I go to watch movies in the theatre I like the commercial played for downloading music. They state “You wouldn’t steal a car” so why download free music. This commercial is seen before the movie starts. This commercial is based mainly on Formalism where downloading music is considered to be morally wrong. But there is also another type of system which is called Consequentialism where moral consequences are to be considered. If an individual downloads music its not only hurting the music team but their families which they support. We have laws that can prevent you from doing this but ethically its an individual responsibility to be honest, have integrity and not do things that are not ethically correct. Downloading music in this cyber age is not considered ethically wrong because it is freely available and the environment we currently reside does not discourage it. All justifications aside downloading music should be considered ethically wrong which would make the downloads less in number. Another difference between ethics and law concerns motivation. Although values found in ethics may be imposed on an individual (by the family, the company, or the law), the motivation to observe moral rules comes from within.
Formalism (also called deontology) is an approach to ethics that affirms an absolute morality principal system of ethics is consequentialism. Consequentialism (also called teleology) concerns itself with the moral consequences of actions rather than with the morality of the actions themselves.
( Reed, 2005, p. 12).
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