Mohammed works as a Quality Assurance Engineer at a large electronics company . He is responsible for the final testing of his company's servers and is part of a team which decides when new products will be shipped to distributors for sale . Mohammed's company has a contract with another company which makes the chips which are incorporated into the servers Mohammed's company makes . The business model for this product is to release a new generation server approximately every six months , meaning Mohammed has a limited timeframe to conduct her Quality Control tests . Because there is such a short amount of time between the release of each next new product , the Quality and Assurance department cannot perform every possible test on the servers to ensure they are defect free . Mohammed will not ship a product if there is any possibility that the server could malfunction and cause physical harm to the customer . However , he will ship a product that has a higher likelihood of failure resulting in data loss for the customer , because he knows that if he doesn't , his company's competitor will . Is this an ethical way to conduct business ? How should she determine when to ship a product with known defects ?