1. How would you respond when someone makes a decision that adversely affects you while saying, 'It's nothing personal, it's just business"? Is business impersonal?
2. Is someone who makes an ethical decision based on enlightened self-interest worthy of more or less praise than someone who makes a similar decision based solely on economic considerations?
3. Since happiness is extremely subjectioe. how would you objectively measure and assess happiness? Do you agree with J. S. Mill that aritlunetic can be used to calculate happineu? Is money a good proxy for happiness?
4. Is there any categorical imperative that you can think of that would have universal application? Isn't there an exception to every rule?
5. Assume that Firm A is a publidy traded company that puts its financial statements on the Web. This information can be accessed and read by anyone, even those who do not own shares of Firm A. This a free-rider situation, where an investor can use Firm A as a means to making m investment decision about another company. Is this ethical? Does free riding treat another individual as a means and not also as an end?
6. How does a business executive demonstrate virtue when dealing with a disgruntled shareholder at the annual meeting?
7. Commuters who have MOM than one passenger in the car are permitted to drive in a special lane on the highway while all the other motorists have to contend with stop¬and-go traffic. What does this have to do with ethics? Assess this situation using oath of the following ethical theories: utilitarianism, &ontology, justice, fairness, and virtue ethics.