Consequences Of Utilitarianism In Lockheed Martin And Boeing Case

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The second ethical perspective to be observed is utilitarianism. Unlike egoism, utilitarianism focuses on the consequences involved with a decision, and the severity of those consequences. Furthermore, utilitarians would select the decision that has the least amount of consequences involved with a situation. In this situation, this ethical perspective would view leaking company secrets as an unethical action because it would consider all the consequences that would be involved with leaking the company secrets. In Lockheed Martin and Boeing case, a utilitarian would not have gone about the situation like Ken Branch did because the utilitarian would understand if they were caught providing Lockheed Martin company secrets they would lose their

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