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Case 1: Working For Eli Lilly And Company

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CUA, Keithlyn L. (4TE-1) Case 1: Working for Eli Lilly and Company a. Discuss Eli Lilly’s practice from the perspective of the categorical imperatives. Eli Lilly hires homeless alcoholics to be used as test subjects for their untested drugs. They pay them $85 per day plus free rooms and board. Although they are trying to create and discover new drugs for the good of the many, they are still using human as a means to their end. Regardless of who they use, those alcoholics are still humans. Yet Eli Lilly threats them like objects to be used as test subjects. b. Is there really “informed consent” here? Is the decision to participate a “truly voluntary and uncoerced decision”? Explain your answer. Based from the case given, it was stated that …show more content…

What are the business interests involved in this case? What are the human rights issues involved? Business Interests Human Rights Issues Involved - To be a top exporter in the country’s premier free port - Rights to a safe working environment - To be a “global company loved by people from around the world” - Right to speak and express ones concerns/opinions. - To continuously be the best shipbuilder in the world - b. In what way are business and human rights in conflict in this case? In what way are they not in conflict? There is a conflict between the company’s interest and the workers’ human rights. The company would want to be a “global company loved by people from around the world” but if words got out that a worker died due to their failure of providing safe environment for their worker, then it will ruin the company. We can assume that because of it, the members of the Samahan ng mga Manggagawa sa Hanjin Shipyard were not able to speak up about the incident fearing that they may lose their job. Another conflict is that the company had been a consistent top exporter in the country’s premier free port earning billions of pesos thus; it is assumed that they still want to remain at the top. With that, issues such as the expenses they will have to pay in order to attain a safe environment for the workers become a problem for them as well as the death of a worker because of the penalty charges. With such expenses, it could lead to the company’s net loss or even worst, their bankruptcy. This is why instead of fixing the problem, the company made use of their connection to fabricate the investigation results. In order for them to continue with their production, they hire more workers treating those workers as though they are just disposable tools to attain their goal yet without providing a safer working

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