Argue and defend your positions on the following statements:

(a) The United States is already and will continue to lose its status as a central, pivotal global superpower, including its cultural and values influence, in the world in the next 10 to 20 years, if not sooner.

(b) Censorship restrictions in other countries on such information technology as Google and other websites are justifiable; the United States and other Western nations should not try to impose their values and norms on censoring practices.

(c) A “global set of ethics” is impossible. Each culture and region of the world should have its own ethics as well as values and cultural differences.

(d) To succeed, globalization must involve justice and fairness practices from First World countries toward Third World nations and peoples.

(e) Although it is preferable that transnational and multinational companies act ethically, it is really not practical in every region of the world, including the United States.

(f) MNEs cannot financially afford to follow the guidelines in Section 8.5; it would be too costly for them.

(g) When two MNEs are both right on a controversial issue—for example, violation of patent or intellectual property rights—ethics should be avoided and other, more concrete issues should be used to resolve the dispute.

(h) Without transnational companies and MNEs doing business in poorer countries, peoples of those countries who are striving to survive would suffer even more.