The Case of the Sole Remaining Supplier

In this case, the moral issues involve the selling of transistors to a company responsible for the making of pacemakers known to cause deaths in people. Additionally, due to the inherent risk of human error associated with the lack of expert ability within the medical field, and considering that technology is still within its infancy, the procedure itself could prove fatal. Is it morally acceptable to sell to this company considering these circumstances? How many live’s are at risk of fatality? Could these risks outweigh the life-saving advantages the technology has offered? The decisions must be weighed against what is more important – such as saving the company from litigation by not selling to the pacemaker company, having a guilty conscience associated with the lives that may be lost due to lack of providers for the transistors, or selling to the company, taking the risk, hoping that the lives you save by continuing the contract will outweigh the fatalities?
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