Is There an Ethical Dilemma Within Network Marketing?

What’s an Ethical Dilemma? Good Question.

“This is an ethical problem in which the ethical choice involves ignoring a powerful non-ethical consideration. Do the right thing, but lose your job, a friend, a lover, or an opportunity for advancement. A non-ethical consideration can be powerful and important enough to justify choosing it over the strict ethical action.”

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“An ethical dilemma is a situation that will often involve an apparent conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. This is also called an ethical paradox since in moral philosophy, paradox plays a central role in ethics debates.”

So, Is there an Ethical Dilemma within Network Marketing?

Over the years we have heard rumors of unethical practices within the Network Marketing industry. Most of these unethical practices could be defined as non-ethical considerations (Definition: Powerful human motivations that are not based on right or wrong, but on considerations of survival and well-being, such as health, security, love, wealth, or self esteem.)

Non-Ethical Considerations: Defined above, non-ethical considerations are important because they are often the powerful impediments to ethical conduct, and the cause of many conflicts of interest. Non-ethical considerations are many and diverse, and include:

* The need and desire for shelter, health, wealth, fame, security, self-esteem, reputation, power, professional advancement, comfort, love, sex, praise, credit, appreciation, affection, or satisfaction.
* The desire for the health, comfort, safety, welfare and happiness for one’s family, loved ones, friends, colleagues, an co-workers.
* The pursuit of vengeance or retribution
* Hunger, lust, pain, ambition, prejudice, bias, hatred, laziness, fatigue, disgust, anger, fear.
* …and many more

When you put people together that have different values, morals and have not adopted an ethical system, the end result will be strong ethical conflict and the creation of a no-man’s-land called the ethical gray area.

In simple terms, a network marketing leader that is not bound by any ethical system and lacking in morals is positioned to negatively effect not only the financial outcome of their entire down line, but will also raise questions of their down lines morality.

What is the solution to this problem? First, we need to understand why a network marketer makes unethical choices.

My next article entitled “Why Would a Network Marketer Make Unethical Choices?” will break this down into detail.

See you on the Beaches of the World,

Kevin McNabb

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