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CONSUMER & MARKETING ETHICS

ARMAMENTS

The Arms Trade

The arms trade is a very sensitive topic and one that holds many preconceptions regarding the industry, the governments and the companies who produce them. It has turned into a huge trade, which has become very profitable for many companies who manufacture them for their countries, and for many rich governments who sell them to countries where civilians are deprived of simple human rights because of this. Who is it that decides whether it is ethical or moral to do this, or whether the wealth that is produced by this very industry is worth all that comes from it? Is it not our world leaders? Or is it the immoral assessments made by the companies who produce them, and allow themselves to be dictated to by our governments?

The UK arms exports play a major part of defence industry sales and many people depend on employment generated by these sales. However, many care about the ethics and the human rights viewpoint of......

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