The Environmental Protection Agency requires your company to self-report pollution discharges daily. It is your job to make those reports. The reports could be easily fudged if the company exceeded its designated limits. Excessive discharges would cost the company $25,000 for each day its limit is exceeded. One morning, your superior forgot to start the pollution control device, and the designated amount of pollution was exceeded. Your superior strongly implies that you should fudge the figures. You are worried that if you don’t, you might be fired. Should you report the correct figures to the EPA? Would your answer be different if you knew whether or not the excessive pollution caused any damage?

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The Environmental Protection Agency requires your company to self-report pollution discharges daily. It is your job to make those reports. The reports could be easily fudged if the company exceeded its designated limits. Excessive discharges would cost the company $25,000 for each day its limit is exceeded. One morning, your superior forgot to start the pollution control device, and the designated amount of pollution was exceeded. Your superior strongly implies that you should fudge the figures. You are worried that if you don’t, you might be fired. Should you report the correct figures to the EPA? Would your answer be different if you knew whether or not the excessive pollution caused any damage?

I do not think that it is right to not correctly report the EPA the corect polution levels.I do not think that my decesion wold be diffrent if if knew weather or not any damage was cuased by the polution. I think that it more a matter of ethics, if I altered the records once what would keep it from happing a second time. I think that altering recorde would start a never ending cycle that some will have to pay for eventually.

Answer 1

I agree with you.

Be sure to check your answer for spelling and other problems, but the content seems fine. I especially think your last sentence is a good, strong conclusion.