Ben Franklin had similar thoughts about wine and once noted how the location of the elbow and the length of our arms enable us "to drink at our ease, the glass going exactly to the mouth. Let us, then, with glass in hand, adore this benevolent wisdom; let us adore and drink!" If he were alive today, Ben would enjoy ALSB annual meetings.
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From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rick Kunkel
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:27 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Coca Cola as ethics case in class?
No, selling beer would not be unethical. After all, as Benjamin Franklin is
frequently quoted to have said:
³Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.²
Thus, it could hardly be considered unethical.
Rick
On 8/31/10 11:30 AM, "Virginia G Maurer"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alas, one must admit that even Diet Coke is not good for you.
>
> But, Dan, does the reasoning apply to beer and alcohol? Are they unethical,
> too? Should one feel bad about working in a grocery store that sells Coke [in
> the South it is just "Coke", even if it is a Pepsi, but never "soda" or "pop",
> much less "sodapop" -- except for the Yankee tourists] and beer?
>
> Tell me it is not so.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Daniel
> Warner
> Sent: Tue 8/31/2010 12:21 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Coca Cola as ethics case in class?
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Well, a person could make a pretty good argument that the manufacturing,
> distribution, and sale of Coca-Cola is itself unethical, just like cigarettes.
> The only thing to be said in favor of soda pop is that the business employs a
> lot of people, just as that's the only thing to be said in favor of
> cigarettes.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dan Warner
>
>
> Prof. Daniel M. Warner
> Dept. of Accounting (Business Legal Studies)
> MS 9071, Parks Hall 401
> Western Washington University
> 516 High St.
> Bellingham, WA 98225
> 360 650-3390
> ________________________________________
> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
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> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:50 PM
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> Subject: use as ethics in class?
>
> Coke Cancels Health Insurance of Striking Workers; Workers Bring ERISA Suit
>
> [http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0133f36b28f8970b-120wi]
> <http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0133f36b28f8970b-pi>
> About 500 Coca-Cola employees went on strike last Monday over charges of
> employee surveillance, intimidation, and bad faith bargaining. A day later,
> Coke responded by cutting off the strikers' health care coverage. Coke's
> rationale, I assume, is that "benefits, like salary, are what you get for
> working, and if you're not working, we don't have to pay you." The strikers,
> however, are calling foul:
>
> "My wife had a kidney transplant two years ago. When Coke cancelled our health
> care, they cut off her anti-rejection medication. This shows me that Coke
> doesn't care about its employees," said Bill Mauhl, a 34-year Coke employee,
> who works in the company's production facility in Bellevue.
>
> Five of the strikers have filed a class-action ERISA suit against Coke.
>
> Readers are invited to weigh in with comments.
>
> Hat tip: Carol Furnish. For more, see
> Law.com<http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2010/08/striking-co
> ke-workers-sue-over-health-insurance-cancellation.html> and the Teamsters
> press
> release<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/employees-file-suit-against-co
> ke-for-cancelling-their-health-care-101715938.html>.
>
> rb
>
> August 30, 2010 in Labor and Employment
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