Answers on Ethics
Uploaded by CaseyP on May 16, 2017
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Question one
The ‘White Like Me' documentary explores how the racial entity has influenced the lives of white Americans. The documentary specifically focuses on what it means to white and the privilege accorded to the people who are ‘white like him.' The privileges infiltrate into the institutional organization including the education and employment sector. The documentary also explores how the white rights can harm the recipients in the long run and lessen their social progression. Tim states that colorblindness cannot be the solution to the racial discrimination. The film begins by narrating a personal story of Wise Tim since he was a child to his adulthood. He attended a school that was mainly made of the blacks with a few whites who were treated specially. At one point, he protested the university's investment in the companies engaging in business with apartheid South Africa; however, he ignored the privileges accorded to him as white until at one point when he was asked to state how he had dealt with racism in the United States.
In my view, the film argues that the whiteness concept is the major contributor of racial discrimination experiences in the United States. The greatest weakness in the overall argument in the film is that there is limited use of the external sources to supporting the point presented in the documentary. Tim focused on the personal experience mainly to convey the message on racial discrimination and whiteness. Lastly, I think the overall argument is compelling because there are various emotional attachments presented in the documentary. Also, the real life experiences act as supporting evidence for the existence of the issue at hand in the documentary.
Question two
The main ethical issue presented in the Corporation Documentary is on balance between the desire to earn a profit as well as provide conducive working environments for the workers. Corporations are mainly driven by financial greed and self-interests while exploiting their employees. The Corporation film focuses on the selected areas where corporations have damaged the society including the child labor, manipulative ads, low wage payment and environmental damage. Ethically, business ought to engage in corporate social responsibility and ensure that they don't cause harm to the society in their pursuit of profit generation and expansion. According to the film, corporations are characterized by features of psychopathic personally disorder which include deceitfulness associated with repeated conning and lying for profit gain, incapacity...