PHIL 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Voluntary Action, Group Action, Puffery
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Reading: whistleblowing and professional responsibility by sissela bok. The way bok writes about whistleblowing is more from the pov of a virtue ethicist. Everything you reveal will automatically be cast in more doubt. People want to be able to look them up and uncover any undisclosed biases. The info"s gotta be relevant, timely (no one likes late news), and affect others. You should also determine whether the info"s worth the public"s time. Strike the balance between your responsibilities: public interest vs. In fact, they"re still up for moral consideration, just can be dealt with later. Perfect and imperfect duties: the relationship between these is positive. The more perfect duties you have to the corporation, the more weight your imperfect duties to the public need to be when considering whistleblowing. Dissent no one blows the whistle on obvious things. If someone decides to become a whistleblower, it"ll go against some established expectations or beliefs.
