Philosophy Statement

Philosophy Statement

Over the course of the semester, our capstone class has talked about one thing, which is ethical decision making. Should you do a wrong and make yourself and or your company better off? This is were you’ll find my opinion on the matter.

I believe its never right to do serious harm to anyone and the environment. We have an obligation not to fight, kill and steal from one another. However, I refuse to believe we are all the same. There are those that have high aspirations and work really hard to achieve those aspirations and then there are those that are perfectly content being absorb with mass media on the couch. These people give up their fair share of the economic bounty and make it available to those that try.

After college I want to make myself prosperous and rich. Would I rattle my morals and ethics to achieve this? The answer is yes I would. I say this because, if I don’t someone else will. We live in an extremely competitive world, with more workers joining the workforce everyday. I have no problem cutting corners, or looking the other way, so that I can move up the ranks of the corporate ladder. Here is an except from my last assignment for my Capstone class, “After looking at my Core values statement, what I though two years ago have changed and it has to do with becoming more aware of my surroundings. I understand that we are all humans, but what I don’t understand is the need to pledge allegiance to each other. I consider myself to be a realist, the only person in this entire universe who gives one hair of a care about me is me and it’s up to me to make it in life. I turn on the news and its blasting news stories on how corporations are cheating the world and its people. I personally believe this is unstoppable and that people are naturally inclined to be competitive and gain power over others, myself included. I hate to be the one who says he’ll engage in shady and perhaps unethical decision makings, but I would be lying to you if I said I wouldn’t. If I’m in a scenario and the scenario is my boss asking me to go overseas and bribe a foreign official for production and manufacturing rights, then I’ll do it. There are hundreds of millions of business people out there; all trying to make a living and a good number would do anything to achieve success. If I say no to my boss he would just go out and find someone else to do it for him and most likely fire me. I don’t want that, because I didn’t spend my entire life reading and learning business tactics to be sideswiped by a bribe dilemma”(King pg. 1). 

I would never inflict bodily harm to anyone though. Death and murder are gross and I wouldn’t participate in that. I would engage in less deceitful behavior. If my employer told me to go over to some country and give some official a package full of money I would, because if I didn’t some other employee would and my employer wouldn’t come back to me in the future for job opportunities.

I agree that my philosophy statement is gross, but I don’t care. Every major company on this planet engages in some unlawful behavior to maintain competitiveness and profits, why shouldn’t I.