Ronald Duska Argument Analysis

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Ibrahim Bakir - 13814012 Ronald Duska argues that the claim of employee loyalty towards their respective employers is inappropriate. I will support his argument in this paper. Even though, I might see things from a different take than Duska did, which I will show, I agree with the concept that employee loyalty should not and could not be prioritized over loyalty to the society. Firstly, I will state Duska’s argument along with how I see it can be supported. Then I will consider a couple of possible responses to Duska’s argument and mine, but will show they fail. Duska notes in the beginning of his paper that society is split into two parts: those who see whistleblowers as disloyal bad people and those who see the whistleblowers as brave people …show more content…

They try to create the sense of the team and put whistleblowing in the sense of an athletic match/event where you are the referee and you have the whistle, and they compare whistleblowing in real life as a player calling a foul on his own team. Which is not really true as in this case, if your team (company) is doing some things that will in turn harm more people (minimize or harm the greater good) then it is ethical/moral/permissible to call the foul on your own team. I would also like to give another point of view in this to show that even a soccer match (as an example) and a business are not alike, they still have the same concept with regards to loyalty. As I said before, that since profit is paramount in the business and if you are not helping in a business, they will not keep you and if you are not making money at the company then you will leave them. It is the same in soccer match example, because if you are not helping your team out and you are the reason they are losing matches, they will sit you on the bench or even trade you, while if you are a very good player but your team is bad and you are not fulfilling your potential as you are ‘outgrowing’ the team, then it is completely fine to request being traded or not renewing your contract in order to go play for a better

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