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Apply either the moral decision-making situation. Prior to doing so, you are required e act-utilitarian or the rule-utilitarian moral decision-making situation. Prior to doing so, you are re application procedure to the following or procedure that you have chosen to to explain (in its entirety) the moradis making procedure that you have selected, you are requirete trictly prohi which you have been provided in the case (below). You are decision-making pr thinking paper your own mind, for purposes of the application of the In other words, this is "a thinking project, the process factual inlorhthan I of the relevant factual information with relevant other than to make use of all strictly prohibited from using any source, paper project," and it is to be exclusively your thinking paper projedt. The Case of the Surreptitious CEO cid(PFOA), a synthetic chemical that has been used in the procedure that you have chosen to use. moral decision-making developed perfluorooctanoic manufacture of a good number of retail products over the past 40 years.dmicrowave popco uorooctanoic armical researchers at Eidden Corporation, a chemical company. re sistant apparel, upholstered furniture, and carpet; carpet cleaning bags;ookware oae and dental floss, as well as in dozens of other household products. Several years ago, an inordinate number of people who lived in, and around, Topund, West Virginia, the location of Eidden's main PFOA manufacturing p number and a variety of different ty ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, and many other medical maladexican a pes of cancer (including kidney, liver, and testicular cancer) Moreover,theU idsen carcinogenic in animals; that PFOA is bioresistant (i.e, it is extremely resistant to natural environmental degradation processes); that high levels of PFOA have been found in soil, air, and ground water at tested sites throughout the continental United States: and that measurable levels d ofPFOA have been found i the blood f98-99%oftheAmencanpopulation. Furthermore, epidemiologists had detected much higher levels of PFOA in the blood of the residents of Topund than that which has been found in the blood of those who constitute the general U.S. population. What corporate executives at Eidden Corporation had kept secret for decades was, first, that their own research on PFOA was virtually conclusive that it is a carcinogen, and second, that, for at least a few decades, they had routinely discharged PFOA in a number of waterways in ue decades ago and internal to the corporation, Eidden's CEO had said, "Because our net profit nity of its manufacturing plant in Topund. In e-mail correspondence, dating to a couple mC (Eidden's name for PFOA] continues to be in the billions of dollars each year, we must rotn to manufacture it despite its carcinogenic effects. Our shareholders expect their dividends to increase year after year, and we cannot afford to disappoint them." Did Eidden, and its CEO, do anything that was morally incorrect? 020918

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The decision to hide the fact that was proved by their own research regarding the use of PFOA that it was carcinogenic, by the excecutives of the Eiddens corporation was not ethical. It caused many types of cancer and many other severe many ailments in the people living in the vicinity of the plant. To make the matter ever worser they also continued to discharge PFOA in the near by water sources for decades even they knew the adverse effects in doing so. These actions of Eddins and the CEO for the interest of the company and it's stakeholders had led to maladies and suffering in the lives of local people.

According to the rule utilitarian ethical principle, this act of Eiddens and it's CEO is morally wrong because their decision to hide facts, not taking to preventive measures even they knew the outcomes caused harm and sufferings to the people living in the surroundings of the plant.

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