Sole Remaining Supplier
Sole Remaining Supplier
Key Utilitarian Ethical Problems
The key utilitarian ethical problems that confront the supplier transistor company in the case is one where the supplier had to choose between ensuring its own good or the greater good. On one hand, the supplier had to protect the company by ensuring that it does not become liable in any way for any problems that may arise from the development or use of defective pacemakers (Shanks, 1996), especially considering that many people were dying from their use at the time. On the other hand, though, if they stopped supplying transistors to the pacemaker company then ...