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1. Understand the
detailed facts and events in the Ford Pinto case. Learning about the exploding
gas tanks will raise awareness of the design and decisions that impacted public
safety and welfare.
2. Discuss the
ethical issues raised by the Pinto case, specifically, public safety,
professional responsibility, duty to the public. Show how the code of ethics
for licensed engineers, architects, and professionals apply to these issues of
safety.
3. Constructively
evaluate the actions of the engineers, designers, and business leaders, and
other main actors in the case, to see how safety and welfare could have been
protected better and what could have been differently.
4. Interpret what we
can learn from the Pinto case about the ethical decision making process, and
discuss what is the best ethical theory to protect the public safety, health,
and welfare.
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