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Bhopal – Union Carbide
Ethical Dilemma

Many ethical issues are raised by the situation that occurred in 1984 at the Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal, India. The most important is the moral and ethical duty to preserve and protect human life. Union Carbide's management, both in the United States and India failed to sufficiently protect its employees, the surrounding communities and environment from harm while operating its plant. It appears that the safety procedures at the plant were not a high priority for either Union Carbide officials or the Indian government. In respects to the Government of India, they would have had to weigh the issue of allowing Union Carbide to build the plant thereby increasing production of pesticides and grain output which in turn directly affected the lives of some seventy million people against the concession that they would enforce few laws requiring expensive environmental equipment and workplace protection. Was it a fair trade-off?......

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