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Fantastic precedent. When your boss tells you to do something unethical and possibly illegal, you now have a great reason to say no.
And one would think the Germans would have learned that lesson.
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>You have to consider ethics in your work as an Engineer. Refusing an unethical task is your moral duty. It's easy to say, but ethics isn´t always so black and white. What about yourself. Do you drive a car? Then you are guilty of contributing to the air pollution that kills 200,000 in the US ever year, and you also endanger others' life by participating in traffic and making it more dangerous. You are also contribut…
The context was pretty clear here. This particular engineer got asked to do something he knew was unethical and he did it anyway. That is pretty black on white to me. Consumer behaviour is an entirely different thing.
Fantastic precedent. When your boss tells you to do something unethical and possibly illegal, you now have a great reason to say no.
And one would think the Germans would have learned that lesson.
And all this, while the VW share just reached new record highs...
Good. For context, air pollution kills 200,000 in the US and 40,000 in UK every year. You have to consider ethics in your work as an Engineer. Refusing an unethical task is your moral duty.
Is it even possible to attribute a death to single, specific cause like pollution? What is the median age of these deaths? How did they happen? Do certain occupations make people more vulnerable to pollution exposure?
Rather, we know from epidemiological data that certain pollution, foods etc. shorten your life by a given amount. Let's say life expectancy is 100 years, living near a coal plant subtracts 5 years from that, and living near a nuclear plant 0. That would mean that out of 20 people living there there was 1 death equivalent a year.
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In Germany the automotive industry is basically the last bastion of high union membership.
Not if you are working for a German automotive company in the UK ...
Let this be a lesson to all that refusing unethical Management decisions might get you fired but at least you won't go to prison.
Let this be a lesson to all that refusing unethical Management decisions might get you fired but at least you won't go to prison.
Unfortunately I think most people will conclude that this kind of enforcement only applies to non-US companies. I guess people from the US might start worrying about travel to the EU though.