An American manager of a multinational company who is working in one o

QUESTION

An American manager of a multinational company who is working in one of the company’s production plants located in the country of Cadmia employs child labor at the manufacturing unit he is in charge of.

On being criticized as unethical, the manager argues that such actions are ethically defensible because everyone in Cadmia is doing it. Which of the following straw men approaches to ethics is most likely demonstrated by the manager?

A. Utilitarianism

B. The righteous moralist

C. The naive immoralist

D. Kantian ethics

E. Ethnocentrism

ANSWER

C