Lying Is Wrong

Introduction In order to be able to evaluate the ethics of any case study a person must have a certain set of fundamental guidelines that they live by. These guidelines tell them whether it’s good or bad to cheat a blind man asking for change or to take candy from a baby, both of which according to society would be bad. But what if the blind man stole the money or if the candy fell on the ground and the baby picked it up? It makes the situation a little harder to classify as right or wrong. As a child growing up it is taught that you should never cheat or steal from anyone, that you always say please and thank you, and that you should never lie to fix a problem. These core beliefs are what structure the ideas of which most people but not all

Lying is wrong and stealing is worse because when you take from one person you end of taking from ten other people. As I grew into myself I created the ideas I have simply by living my experiences and understanding that the world will not cater to the way I choose to live but that I must cater to it. I learned to say please and thank you at school because it was the societal polite thing to do. I learned that if I were nice to someone they would be nice to me back (most of the time). I also learned that standing up for myself was the most important thing because no one was going to stand up for me. When I see something I don’t approve of I speak on it simply because I need to make sure my voice isn’t quieted by the noise. These core beliefs are what I bring into my professional life especially in the realm of business management where so many ideas ore

When taking the position of Martin she is selecting to go with the ethical view of justice. She believes that by altering the documents and making deals that don’t properly reflect the numbers she is some how being unfair or unjust to the banking system and moral she is being dishonest. Lang is taking the position of the Individualism view where self is trumping the idea of altering the documents, by him making the statement that they will lose their bonuses and him personally will lose his sports box at his college implies he doesn’t care about the fairness aspect and that he is worried about self. Lang also tries to appeal to Martins Utilitarian view and Moral view by reminding here that if they lose the loan then a lot of people would be out of a job and their would be a lot of damaged done to others and herself included. Each ethical view is being challenged in this dilemma especially when the head of the company decides to back the decisions to alter the documents to fit the needs and present a false