Several Years Ago, You Started a Company That Sells Ornamental

question 99

Essay

Several years ago, you started a company that sells ornamental, collectible items over the Internet. Your company's entire history has been Internet sales and you have never made your products available in any other way. Suddenly you begin receiving letters complaining that it is unethical to ignore potential customers, who do not have Internet access. Discuss your response to these letters, and the considerations that go into your response. What if your company is a social service organization?

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Definitions:

Parsing

The process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages, or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar.

Arbitrary

Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

Stimulus

A signal or item in the environment that elicits a response from an organism.

Perceptual Features

Characteristics of objects in our environment that we can perceive through our senses, such as shape, color, texture, and size.