Question

Jasmine is a mechanical engineer at ACME Engineering. ACME currently buys most of their industrial parts from Old Guard Industrial, but Jasmine has been unhappy about the quality and price of the parts from Old Guard. Shaun is a sales representative for an up-and-coming parts supplier called Paradigm Parts. Shaun and Jasmine, who had worked together previously, go to the same church, and after the Sunday service, Shaun offers to buy Jasmine lunch to discuss the ways they can work together.

If Jasmine were to claim that she should refuse to have lunch with Shaun because it violates ACME’s code of ethics, this claim would be a(n):_________.
(A) application claim
(B) conceptual claim
(C) factual claim
(D) moral claim

Answer 1

(D) moral claim

Step-by-step explanation:

Ethics is an aspect of philosophy that dwells on the study of morality. Morality on the other hand refers to how right or wrong a given situation or thing is.

When Jasmine who is a Mechanical Engineer in ACME Engineering refuses to have lunch with Shaun, a Sales Representative in another company that her company does not do business with, she has made a moral claim because this claim or decision is based on the rightfulness or wrongness of her actions on the basis of her organizations' principles. This is an ethical consideration and therefore a moral claim.