18. In this argument, the head of a government department concludes that the
department does not need to strengthen either its ethics regulations or its enforcement
mechanisms in order to encourage ethical behavior by companies with which it does
business. The first reason given is that businesses have agreed to follow the
departments existing code of ethics. The second reason is that the existing code is
relevant to the current business environment. This argument is unacceptable for several
reasons.
The sole support for the claim that stronger enforcement mechanisms are
unnecessary comes from the assumption that companies will simply keep their promises
to follow the existing code. But, since the department head clearly refers to rules
violations by these same businesses within the past year, his faith in their word is
obviously misplaced. Moreover, it is commonly understood that effective rules carry
with them methods of enforcement and penalties for violations.
To show that a strengthened code is unnecessary, the department head claims that
the existing code of ethics is relevant. In partial clarification of the vague term
relevant, we are told that the existing code was approved in direct response to
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