please make sure to answer E and F because they are the important questions here
please answer e part of the question using kants categorical rule, rawls veil of ignorance and golden rule.
and answer f according to value rule
INTRODUCING THE PINTO FIRES CASE Next we'll discuss a case that chronicles events that took place over 30 years ago. You may ask, why study such an old case? We present this case because it is extremely important in American business history. In 2005, Fortune Magazine called it one of the 20 business decisions that "helped create the business world as it is today." 26 ment of cording to Fortume, the case and ensuing legal battles contributed to the development of consumer activism as well as to the consumer protections and class action more recent produet safety franted. We have also seen aspects of the case play out in CASE PINTO FIRES by Dennis A. Gioia (used with permission) On August 10, 1978, three teenage girls died homibly in an automobile accident. Driving a 1973 Ford Pinto to their church volleyball practice in Goshen, Indiana, they were struck from behind by a Chevrolet van. The Dints's fuel tank ruptured and the car exploded in flames. Two passengers, Lynn Marie Ulrich, 16, and her cousin. Donna Lynn Marie's sister 18-vear-old ludv Ann. was dragged out alive from the driver's seat, but died in agony hours later in the hospital. 66 SECTON E ETHCS AND The INONDOUL. The Pinto's gas tank ruptured, causing the car to burst into flames. The neighbor was: burned to death in a crash that would have been survivable if there had been no fire. Richand vuffenedulaird-degree burns over 90 pereent of his body and subiequently underweat more than 60 operations, with only limited success, A civil suit was settled in February 1978, when a jury awarded a judement of over 5125 million agains Ford. mos of which consisted of punitive damages (dater reduced to 56 million by a judge who nonetbeless accused Ford of "callous indifference to himan life"). This judgment was based on convinicing evidence that Ford chose not to spend the 511 per car to correct the faults in the Pinte gas tanks that its own crash testing had reveuled. The Pinto sold well until the media called spethal attention to the Pinto fuel tank story. As a consequence, in June 1978, in the foce of pressure from the media, the government, pesding court cases, and the potential loss of future sales. Ford ordered a complete recall of all 1.5 million Pinos built between 1970 and 1976. During the 1980 Indiana trial that resulied from the fatal accident of 1978, differing views continued to be expressed about the Pinto fires case. Ford represeatatives argued that companies must make cosi-benefit decisions all the time. They claimed that it is an essential pait of business, and even though everyone knows that seme people will die in auto accidents, bayers want costs held down, therefore. people imnlicity accept risks when broine in a scathing article accusing Ford of crimiaally mismanaging the Pinto problem. iavestigative reporter Mark Dowie framed the case in a different and rather more society every time vameone is kilited in a car accident. The Ford sencational way, with this often-quoted speculation: "Ooe wonden how long the Ford Motor Company used the 5200.725 total figure in its own costMotor Company would continue to market lethal cars Were Heare Eandilind Lee benefa enalyais. lacocca serving twenty-year terms in Leavenworth for consumer homsicide. "29 very low speeds (under 25 miles per hour). Reporis contibed to indicate a similar thend ia subisequent years, but no recall was initiated despite the mounting evidence. At every internal review, those responsble decided not to recall the Pinto. Case Questions Prior to the Indiana accident, the most poblicized case conceming the Piato's gas 1. Put yourself in the role of the rocall coordinator for Ford Moror Co. It is 1973, tank was ihasol Richand.Grimbiaw In 1972. Richand, then 13, was nding with a and field reports have been coming is about rear-end collisions, fires, and fatalities. You must decide whether to recall the automobile. a. Identify the relevant facts. b. Ideatify the pertinent ethical issues and points of ethical confict. c. Identify the relevant affected parties 4. Identify the possible consequences of alternative courses of action e. Identify relevant obligations. f. Identify your relevant community siandards that should guide you as a perton of integrity. b. Check your gut. What will you decide? 1. Put yourself in the role of the recall coordinator for Ford Motor Co. It is 1973, and field reports have been coming in about rear-end collisions, fires, and fatalities. You must decide whether to recall the automobile. a. Identify the relevant facts. b. Identify the pertinent ethical issues and points of ethical conflict. c. Identify the relevant affected parties. d. Identify the possible consequences of alternative courses of action. e. Identify relevant obligations. f. Identify your relevant community standards that should guide you as a person of integrity. g. Check your gut. What will you decide? f. Identify your relevant community standards that should guide you as a person of integrity. g. Check your gut. What will you decide
