ABC Company is a multi-national pharmaceutical company which produces and distributed medicine and drugs. Recently ABC...

 

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ABC Company is a multi-national pharmaceutical company which produces and distributed medicine and drugs. Recently ABC Company is under fire due to a case that have sparked the interest of Social and Human Rights Activists. ABC Company was formulating a drug and testing the drug on transplant patients. The "Injector' is a drug that prevents a patients' immune system from rejecting an organ that has been transplanted into the patients. Transplanted organs are either taken from people who have recently died or had been declared as 'brain dead'. ABC Company also have acknowledged that the organs of its test patients have been harvested from Sungai Buloh Prisoners where they have received written consent from the prisoners. In a press conference, ABC Company stated that their mission is for a greater good since the drug can be commercialised for the betterment of human healthcare. However, ABC Company did not disclose the fact that by experimenting on the prisoners, they would able to save RM20 million in research cost. Social and Human Rights Activist Group called "Pro Life" argued that this is a crime against humanity as they believe that majority of the prisoners that was used as test subjects were political dissidents who had been jailed because of their religious or political views and not because of whether they had committed any crimes or was sentenced for any wrongful actions. Meanwhile, DEF Company Bhd, a public listed investment firm which been heavily investing in ABC Company currently is facing an ethical dilemma whether to continue to invest or to cease all investments. The reason being, is that DEF Company Bhd has been generating more than RM10 million in annual dividend from ABC Company. Based on the above mentioned scenario; (a) Analyse how Utilitarianism might provide a defence for ABC Company. (5 marks) ABC Company is a multi-national pharmaceutical company which produces and distributed medicine and drugs. Recently ABC Company is under fire due to a case that have sparked the interest of Social and Human Rights Activists. ABC Company was formulating a drug and testing the drug on transplant patients. The "Injector' is a drug that prevents a patients' immune system from rejecting an organ that has been transplanted into the patients. Transplanted organs are either taken from people who have recently died or had been declared as 'brain dead'. ABC Company also have acknowledged that the organs of its test patients have been harvested from Sungai Buloh Prisoners where they have received written consent from the prisoners. In a press conference, ABC Company stated that their mission is for a greater good since the drug can be commercialised for the betterment of human healthcare. However, ABC Company did not disclose the fact that by experimenting on the prisoners, they would able to save RM20 million in research cost. Social and Human Rights Activist Group called "Pro Life" argued that this is a crime against humanity as they believe that majority of the prisoners that was used as test subjects were political dissidents who had been jailed because of their religious or political views and not because of whether they had committed any crimes or was sentenced for any wrongful actions. Meanwhile, DEF Company Bhd, a public listed investment firm which been heavily investing in ABC Company currently is facing an ethical dilemma whether to continue to invest or to cease all investments. The reason being, is that DEF Company Bhd has been generating more than RM10 million in annual dividend from ABC Company. Based on the above mentioned scenario; (a) Analyse how Utilitarianism might provide a defence for ABC Company. (5 marks)

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