Ahmad Hamid

OGL 345
#2

Moral Minefield
Assignment Guidelines
For the following questions, be sure to connect to the reading material in your book. This is a writing
assignment, so answers should be written in complete and coherent sentences and paragraphs. Answers
in the A range will refer to the text and fully explain how the concepts learned in the text apply to the
question.

You may type your answers directly into this document after the prompts, save it, and then upload it into
the submission box.

Play through the Moral Minefield level for this week and answer the following questions:

1. Copy and paste (or screenshot) your Level overview and scores. You can find this
information again in your Overview & Profile.

2. Reflect on the scenarios presented in the game. Was there anything you found particularly
difficult? Anything that surprised you?
 Ahmad Hamid
OGL 345
#2

As mentioned in the book in chapter 5, "virtue is a kind of mean, since......" "While the extremes are
neither praiseworthy nor right, but worthy of blame, it aims at what is intermediate." I believe that
question 5 was the basic issue of this level, which was very difficult for me. I thought that it was
ethical to perform this competitive analysis because it did not breach something that worried me. I
figured it would be okay to have pitch data and data from ad agencies that would be very useful to use
where there was no pain. This was not the case at all, in the view of the ad agencies I had not weighed
and also, I had not read extensively what the real purpose of the marketing directors was. The
manager director notes that, “…the Marketing Director informs you that they will not be choosing a
winner right away, if at all.” (Planet Jockey). After looking back on this, the ad agencies are under the
assumption that they are being interviewed to be a potential recruit on Pharma Karma, after a previous query
where the purpose is not reciprocal, they do not realize that they are being interviewed only to collect their
very unethical data.

3. Explain one of the decision-making scenarios you were given in this level and analyze it in
terms of one of this week’s theories.
(Note: for full credit, be sure you name the theory you are using, explain the theory fully, and then
explain how the scenario illustrates that theory)

I believe that in terms of intent, Question 7 "Support," Question 5 "The pitch," and Question 3 "The
Conversation" all integrate Kantian theory. "I think the quote in our textbook from chapter 3 perfectly
relates, "...Kant concluded that motives matter more than consequences for the distribution of ethical
esteem and ethical guilt (Fryer pg. 91). In question 3 & 5 questions the intent was immoral, if you
don't look at the intent then these might actually be advantages to the business to acquire useful
knowledge and data, but the intent to not tell these sources the mapped-out plan with acquiring their
data is quite unethical and incorrect. This is indeed a case where motive was ethical in relation to
question 7 because t the data collected was in good faith in return for information sharing to build
valuable business relationships.

4. How could you use the concepts discussed in this simulation in your job today? Relate these
concepts to the other course materials and to your own experiences.
(Note: for full credit, be sure discuss a specific scenario, a specific example from your own
experiences, and a specific connection to something you learned from the text)

I think the greatest take away I have from this level two is that it is really important to get
information correctly, not to hide information from people, and it is really crucial to conduct business
with the right intent, and ultimately it is very unethical to have employees distort a circumstance for
the organization. First of all, I have to keep myself accountable to a high standard and be careful how I
deal with clients; I need to make sure that they feel secure and that there is no way they think I can
get their information from them for any other reason, except to validate their identity and get them
where they are going safely. I try to enforce this in relation to not holding data from people by always
communicating the path that GPS has for the ride, by communicating I add accountability, so the client
knows that what is going on from start to finish. So far as the purpose goes, I always try to make it
clear that by taking longer routes and what not, I am not trying to take people "for a ride" or, in other
words, cheat people for more money by helping people get around the city safely while performing
proper business standards. Finally, with individuals adding unplanned routes and stops, I am not
defiantly cool, it is not accounted for in my application that may be a possible policy infringement for
me, so I still politely reject circumstances that could place me at risk.
 Ahmad Hamid
OGL 345
#2

References:

The business Ethics game Planet Jockey. Retrieved from

https://play.eigames.com/game/11#/learning

Fryer, M. (2015). Ethics theory et business practice. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage.