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Assignment 6
Business Ethics Assignment 6Read Chapter 6 of Moral Issues in Business and watch the following videos. After doing so, answer each of the following questions. The links to the videos are provided below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYhEvOzzRwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGI3rL7smN8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrXaGenIj4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnU3sidMllshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vU9K5o2cohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjFXAOQyE0whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsO6PH_O54https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znOK1b612ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FkJplgR8chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6VlZFlPxIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvA0rMX2xshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QEkw6_O6whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmQyCtWoYUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NssfPApe5iQ1. How does a product like tobacco raise questions concerning consumer rights, product safety and the responsibilities that businesses have to the general public regarding what they disclose about their product to the consumer?2. Describe the MacPherson vs. Buick Motor Car. How did it impact consumer safety laws?3. What is due care? How is it different from caveat emptor?4. What is strict product liability?5. What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission? What are some of the ways in which it can be problematic for businesses and consumers?6. Describe legal paternalism.7. What is the food and drug administration, and why was it formed?8. Give an example of how public opinion has influenced the FDA approval process of a new drug.9. What are the 6 things that businesses should consider about the safety of their products?10. What is product quality? Be sure to include in your answer a discussion of express warranties, implied warranties, and merchantability.11. Why do prices always end in .99?12. What is manipulative pricing?13. What is price fixing? Include in your answer a discussion of horizontal and vertical price fixing.14. What is price gouging? What are some of the moral challenges associated with it?15. What is labeling and packaging? What are somethings businesses need to consider when informing consumers about their product? What are quantity surcharges?16. What is ambiguity and weasel words?17. What is concealment of facts?18. What is exaggeration and puffery?19. What is psychological appeal and subliminal advertising?20. What is the Federal Trade Commission? How do they differentiate between reasonable-consumer standard and gullible-consumer standard?21. Why does the FTC take special consideration with regards to ads for children?22. How did the rise of childhood obesity effect business in America?23. What is consumer sovereignty and the dependence effect?24. What are some of the problems with advertising? How do some defend the practice of advertising on the basis of freedom of speech?
Discussion Board 6
Discussion Board 6Read section 6.1 and watch the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrnkhiNF6M The example of breast implants is an interesting issue because, while we are typically concerned about businesses taking shortcuts with regards to the health and safety standards of their products, breast implants are an instance in which a potentially unsafe product is still kept on the market because of consumer demand. What do you guys think? To what degree should businesses be able to sell products that can have a potentially negative effect on health and safety if there is considerable consumer demand? To what degree should the government intervene when there are health and safety concerns?
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