Law, Business and Society 11th Edition by Tony McAdams

تمرين 44

Kansas City Royals pitcher Gil Meche, 32 years old and troubled by a shoulder injury, decided in 2011 to retire from baseball. The decision would not be considered particularly newsworthy beyond the sports pages except that Meche passed up the $12 million final year of his contract by doing so. Others in similar situations have reported to spring training, gone through the motions and collected their big pay- checks. Meche said, "When I signed my contract, my main goal was to earn it. Once I started to realize I wasn't earning my money, I felt bad." Meche thought he had already earned enough from the Royals: "Making that amount of money from a team that's already given me over $40 milliop for my life and for my kids, it just wasn't the right thing to do."
a. Would you do the same as Meche if you were similarly situated Explain.
b. Have you ever spurned money for reasons of principal
c. Why did you do so
d. Was Meche employing utilitarian or formalist reasoning Explain. See Tyler Kepner, "Pitcher Spurns $12 Million, to Keep Self-Respect," The New York Times, January 26, 2011 [http://www.nytimes.com].