When is “Everyone's Doing It A Moral Justification?
探讨在商业环境中，当“大家都这么做”成为普遍行为时，在什么条件下它可以作为道德上合理的理由来跟随他人行为，并提出了五个初步条件并通过商业伦理案例进行检验。
The claim that “Everyone's doing it” is frequently offered as a reason for engaging in behavior that is widespread but less-than-ideal. This is particularly true in business, where competitors’ conduct often forces hard choices on managers. When is the claim “Everyone's doing it” a morally valid reason for following others’ lead? This discussion proposes and develops five prima facie conditions to identify when the existence of prevalent but otherwise undesirable behavior provides a moral justification for our engaging in such behavior ourselves. The balance of the discussion focuses on testing these conditions by applying them to a series of representative cases in business ethics.