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o Deceptive Advertisement. Case of pure Juice drink with
pomegranate juice in USA. o 50% OFF common ads; Off what? Very common practice o Fine prints in ads; o Deceptive packaging ( examples);
Oranges and grapes at train stations in India. • Tooth paste packaging
• Cinnamon Stick and many other packaging o Business Schools did not teach courses on Business Ethics.
Thus, they have created many of their graduates trained in maximizing profits/returns instantly and by any means. o Only recently, business Schools have started offering courses
in ethics but still in India, not many schools do.
Sayings by: MAHATMA GANDHI That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards
moral values.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
There is sufficient in the word for man's need but not for
man's greed. A businessman who lies and cheats his simple minded
and ignorant customers cannot hope to be saved.
Business without a morality is a deadly sin.
While one could write not just one, but many books on of all these topics, in this chapter I will touch upon only a selected few. All of the included topics havestrong footprints of himsa; in fact some of them amount to white-collar crime and colossal himsa.
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