An American manager in Colombia routinely pays off the local drug lord to guarantee that his plant will not be bombed and that none of his employees will be kidnapped.The manager argues that such payments are ethically defensible because everyone is doing it.This "drug lord problem" is a classic example of which one of the following straw man approaches to ethics?

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Naive immoralism and asserts that if a manager of a multinational sees that firms from other nations are not following ethical norms in a host nation,that manager should not either.The classic example to illustrate the approach is known as the drug lord problem.

An American Manager in Colombia Routinely Pays Off the Local