Johan Is the Manager of CycleUp and Has Agreed to Build

question 81

Multiple Choice

Johan is the manager of CycleUp and has agreed to build a new manufacturing plant in Argentina. He realizes this decision will cause him to shut down a small plant in Ohio, but he decides that since the new facility will cut his operating costs in half, that is worth more than closing a plant employing ten people. Which philosophical approach to ethics does this demonstrate?

• A) Righteous moralist
• B) Friedman
• C) Utilitarian
• D) Cultural relativism
• E) Naive immoralist

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