Nestle officials seemingly believed that most allergic infants would benefit from Good Start, which was designed to prevent or reduce colic. A Nestle vice president defended Good Start when it caused some severely milk-allergic infants to experience serious side effects, including convulsive vomiting, saying, “I don’t understand why our product should work in 100 percent of cases. If we wanted to say it was foolproof, we would have called it allergy-free.” This is an example of?
A. a formal statement of ethical principles and rules of conduct.
B. a democratic consensus of moral principles and laws that govern the behavior of individuals based on legislation adopted at the federal, state, and local levels.
C. a personal moral philosophy that considers individual rights or duties as universal, regardless of the outcome.
D. a societal moral philosophy based on the Golden Rule ethic found in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.
E. a personal moral philosophy that focuses on “the greatest good for the greatest number” by assessing the costs and benefits of the consequences of ethical behavior.