PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sweatshop, Deontological Ethics
12 Jun 2020
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Republic, haiti, honduras, and nicaragua, for example. (data from powell & skarbeck: zwolinski on mne"s obligations, zwolinski compares the moral obligation of mne"s to those of ordinary citizens: Consider the fact that most individuals do nothing to make third-world workers better off it would be odd to blame mnes for helping some when we blame individuals less (or not at all) for helping none. Most people do not fault nike for doing nothing to improve the position of agricultural workers. Relative to a baseline of no job at all, a job with low wages and an emotionally abusive manager might be the best option available But this does not morally justify the emotional abuse. Sweatshop workers" consent thus shows us that sweatshop employment is probably their best option, and that we will harm them if we take that option away.
