Tut 2 Moral Philosophies
Week 5: Moral Philosophies (Assessed)
Case 2.1: Blood for Sale (Shaw et al textbook, pp. 99-101)
Read the case before your tutorial and prepare typed answers to the questions 1, 2 and 7 at the end of the case.
1. Is Sol Levin running a business ‘just like any other business’, or is his company open to moral criticism? Defend your answer by appeal to moral principle.
I think Sol Levin is in open to moral criticism of the type of business. Although he is running a business like any other business person in the world, he has different the way of business. I cannot buy blood at a quarter and sell it for a lot of money. Blood is very important, it also is life and you give life for free, so blood is not products of business.
2. Did plasma international strike a fair bargain with the West Africans who supplied their blood to the company? Or is plasma guilty of exploiting them in some way? Explain your answer.
Plasma international purchased blood form poor South African people for 15 cents to the pint, but they sold it for up to 25 cents a pint in the US. I think this way of the exploitation of poor people is not able to successful in the further.
7. Many believe that commercialisation is increasing in all areas of modern life. If so, is it something to be applauded or condemned? Is it wrong to treat certain things-such as human organs-as commodities?
Nowadays society is becoming more and more commercialized, many people consider to everything can be for sales. However, I think something should not be sold. For example blood, organs or even stem cells that comes from human should not be change to money. As we know, no business no killed, so selling a part of human is immoral trade, and some undesirables are able to cause harm to others for get what they want.
Case 2.1: Blood for Sale (Shaw et al textbook, pp. 99-101)
Read the case before your tutorial and prepare typed answers to the questions 1, 2 and 7 at the end of the case.
1. Is Sol Levin running a business ‘just like any other business’, or is his company open to moral criticism? Defend your answer by appeal to moral principle.
I think Sol Levin is in open to moral criticism of the type of business. Although he is running a business like any other business person in the world, he has different the way of business. I cannot buy blood at a quarter and sell it for a lot of money. Blood is very important, it also is life and you give life for free, so blood is not products of business.
2. Did plasma international strike a fair bargain with the West Africans who supplied their blood to the company? Or is plasma guilty of exploiting them in some way? Explain your answer.
Plasma international purchased blood form poor South African people for 15 cents to the pint, but they sold it for up to 25 cents a pint in the US. I think this way of the exploitation of poor people is not able to successful in the further.
7. Many believe that commercialisation is increasing in all areas of modern life. If so, is it something to be applauded or condemned? Is it wrong to treat certain things-such as human organs-as commodities?
Nowadays society is becoming more and more commercialized, many people consider to everything can be for sales. However, I think something should not be sold. For example blood, organs or even stem cells that comes from human should not be change to money. As we know, no business no killed, so selling a part of human is immoral trade, and some undesirables are able to cause harm to others for get what they want.