I agreed with the stance Dick Sporting goods took, but it’s easy for me to do that because
I don’t have billions riding on that decision. I don’t have to hope there are enough investors just
as concerned about what is the ethically correct thing as much the stock price of the
company. Unfortunately, in the country today the culture of greed runs rampant, even at the cost
of killing children. Without getting into a political debate, what we see with the issue of guns
and the powerful lobbyists influencing the debates about what is the ethical thing to do is a prime
example.
I find the topic of moral courage interesting. It is true that the first choice should be to speak up
against wrongs and unethical behaviors, but all around I see it is not so, it is rare when that is
done. The lack of moral courage is seen all over our country and in the work place because of
greed on one spectrum and the need for economic survival on the other end of the spectrum.
We live in a society where laws had to be enacted to prevent whistle blowers from being
discriminated against and punished. This is because companies are more interested in protecting
their bottom line, and some leaders/managers believe themselves above the law so they don’t
concern themselves with being ethical because they have HR and their lawyers to clean up after
them. Uber’s CEO was eventually outed but it took the moral courage of an employee to speak
up and speak out. Whatever she witnessed, I am sure she was not the first to have been
confronted with it, but she took a stand. Many things that are now norm came at great sacrifice
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