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    1. Customers often remain loyal to a brand because of its appearance, functionality, or price. Companies want loyal customers like these and will go to great lengths to keep them.

      Loyalty can also go generations. Some people will solely utilize the brands their parents or grandparents were loyal to and not think twice about it.

    1. including a reputation for treating customers and employees fairly and for engaging in business honestly.

      Employee retention is a very important stat for businesses in my opinion. Maintaining a positive work environment can go a long way

    1. It may also mean treating our employees, customers, and clients with honesty and respect.

      I think many businesses under value this aspect of business. The term "internal customer" was brought up at one of the first company meetings I was in post graduation and that term has stuck with me since. Maintaining employees is growing more and more difficult with job hopping increasing in popularity.

    1. However, there are common threads that run through it, and the Framework focuses on those, again with the goal of serving as a useful aid that is relatively easy to apply.

      It's unique to think about how different cultures ethics can very. I remember one of m professor's telling me in college that there are culture's that view hand shakes as disrespectful. She taught me how important it's to be aware of key differences when meeting with people from other cultures.

    1. However, while some people have highly developed habits that make them feel bad when they do something wrong, others feel good even though they are doing something wrong.

      It's interesting how different people can react to the same thing. I wonder what the main causes of this are if it's primarily based on the environment they grew up in or something else that causes this.

    1. illusion

      I believe an appropriate substitute for this term would be misunderstanding. I think that social media and news outlets try to hide certain key aspects in reports that cause drastic misunderstandings when people don' tdive deeper into them.

    1. Here individuals are viewed not in isolation, but as members of communities that are partially responsible for the behavior of their member

      This reminds me of what my college coaches used to preach. They also talked about how when you're wearing "our brand" you're representing more than yourself, you're representing our brand and our comminuty.

    1. American cultural traditions, in fact, reinforce the individual who thinks that she should not have to contribute to the community's common good, but should be left free to pursue her own personal ends.

      I feel as though when people are asked to do something and they reply with "what's in it for me" is becoming more and more common of a response. Unfortunately it seems people are starting to look past the for the greater good persepctive

    1. Retributive justice refers to the extent to which punishments are fair and just

      Location is a big factor in this. States have varying laws around just about everything. For example someone who commits a crime in one state could suffer a far greater punishment than if they were to commit the same crime in another state.

    1. How would the action affect the basic well-being of those individuals?

      I feel as this ideology is becoming harder and harder to find. With so many individuals wishing for fame and popularity.

    2. The right to privacy, for example, imposes on us the duty not to intrude into the private activities of a person.

      With all the recent technological advancements, I wonder how they have impacted this. News outlets typically advertise that all our moves, clicks, and purchases are tracked and help targeted advertisement

    1. First, the utilitarian calculation requires that we assign values to the benefits and harms resulting from our actions and compare them with the benefits and harms that might result from other action

      Each benefit and harm is subjective depending on the value of the individual making the decision. What they deem as extremely beneficial could be deemed harmful by another