PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Whistleblower, The Whistleblower, Deontological Ethics
2 Mar 2017
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The main stakeholders: the public, employees have obligations towards the public (?, the individual. Deciding when whistleblowing is morally justified as when it is not requires a balancing many different obligations. Reassignment, legal costs, downgrades at work, work with more responsibility, constructive harassment, starting over (getting fired), possibly undergoing a psychiatric fitness-for-duty examination, privacy invaded, trust undermined. It depends, but most likely refraining from blowing the whistle may impose huge cost on the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272), or it (cid:373)ay si(cid:373)ply go agai(cid:374)st i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:373)oral duty. Mutual suspicion, hiding behind executive privilege or national security. Is a swedish- born american philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two nobel prize winners: gunnar myrdal who won the economics prize with fredrick hayek in 1974, and. Alva myrdal who won the nobel peace prize in 1982. This paper is a good, balanced review of the pros and cons of whistleblowing.
