Greetings!!
After clearing my "Business Ethics" course last summer, I fidgeted with the realization that my field of majors - MARKETING & ADVERTISING - has a number of ethical issues attached to it. Promoting a product by showing masses its untrue reality is by far a major part of marketing and advertising. This dilemma has highly confused me till date. However, recently, I have realized that ethical dilemmas are in fact attached to every profession.
Lets consider Finance - the backbone of every business! Lets not forget how companies dissolved along with heavy investments from public due to unethical accounting practices and financial mismanagement. It is actually the first most ethically challenged field in my view.
Now consider health practitioners - be it doctors or pharmacists. Nowadays, specially here in Pakistan, the doctors on strike and the resultant deaths are sufficient to prove my point. Additionally, the cost of the specialists is so obnoxiously high, the "nobility" of this profession has been long drowned down the drain. Talking about pharmaceutical related professionals, it is not unheard of that harmful medicines were released into the market before proper experimentation. Also, low-quality medicines and fake medicines are also not entirely non-existent in Pakistan - someone from the officials have to "pass" these medicines to bring them to the market.
These are the two popular professions with ethical dilemmas attached evidently with them. Other professions have similar dilemmas if we only look closely at them. However, the only way to abstain from the dilemmas is to maintain a clear conscience - and largely abstain from telling lies! Clean conduct clarifies conscience - the inner voice of truth. With a clear conscience, we can be sure than we are practicing ethically.
Peace.
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