Ethical dilemma: The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig
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You founded a company that manufactures meatless burgers that are sold in stores worldwide. But you’ve recently received awful news: three people in one city died after eating your burgers. A criminal has injected poison into your product! The deaths are headline news and sales have plummeted. How do you deal with the crisis? George Siedel and Christine Ladwig explore the different strategies of this ethical dilemma.
Imagine that you are an automobile manufacturer that is required to add seatbelt restraints to your vehicles. The seatbelts that you are currently using meet all the legal requirements for safety, but there is a new restraint system available that is 25% safer for passengers. The new seatbelts, however, will add significant cost to the vehicles, resulting in lower profits and reduced ability to compete in the marketplace. Do you keep installing the legally-compliant seatbelts, or will you switch to the new restraint system?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator George Siedel, Christine Ladwig
- Director Patrick Smith
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Patrick Smith
- Storyboard Artist Patrick Smith
- Compositor Patrick Smith
- Art Director Patrick Smith
- Sound Designer Cem Misirlioglu
- Music Cem Misirlioglu
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Cella Wright
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
