DEJ 6

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In the second part of this module, I took my previous knowledge and what I learned through the readings and got to apply it in a comparative analysis between two business ethics blogs. For me this was a fairly new concept analyzing ethics within the business world. When ethics has been brought up in past classes it is usually surrounding more over-encompassing moral issues in the world such as famine and war. This exercise was interesting because I got to dissect different ethical issues within the business world using different ethical lenses. I found it very interesting that most of these ethical issues I read about in the blogs can be interpreted in very different ways depending on the ethical approach you take. For example, utilitarianism paints a drastically different lens for most ethical issues in the business world. Utilitarianism is picking the outcome that will bring good to the most amount of people. For example, sometimes a business may have to do things like lay off workers or outsource work overseas. This may look bad and unethical to most people at first glance but if you dig deeper it may not be the worst thing. A utilitarian mindset would say maybe the layoffs and outsourcing are keeping the company afloat which means at the end of the day it is bringing good to all the employees at the company except for the ones that lost their jobs. Using these different ethical lenses helps paint a picture of the situation that may have not been there before allowing outside people to better comprehend the full situation.