Created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
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>Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. |Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
It has often been said that profit and morality are a hard combination to beat. Nevertheless, we must give idealism a chance to join profit and morality in harmony, whenever and wherever possible. That is, businesses should do anything they can to make a profit, but never at the expense of human welfare and natural environment.
Human welfare must be considered as important as profit making, on the one hand. A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all its forms. Failing that, any business is likely to be driven by greed and fall into a bottomless pitch. In fact, the great value of a business should be morally associated with consumer satisfaction and safety. Besides, the benefits of employees as well as their working conditions must also be ethically addressed. It must be remembered that the margins of economic gains may be cut accordingly, and yet moderate profit can fill the purse in the end just the same.
On the other hand, businesses of great value should not be blind to their moral obligations of protecting the natural environment. Often enough, air and water are being polluted by irresponsible businesses, particularly in the manufacturing field. In pursuit of quick and easy money, some businesses are solely creating environment problems without even providing sufficient eco-solutions. Apparently, the profit-making game is far from the spirit of fair-play, if any business is liable to make nature as victim of their success. Indeed, this being the case, any profit gained in the absence of moral awareness may be called dirty money.
Businesses should therefore always take into consideration the moral issues of human welfare and natural environment as extremely as doing anything they can to make a profit. Such idealism can happen only when businesses can make a profit without sacrificing moral principles. The uncomfortable truth, however, is that when morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit losses.
