Post by Arend van Campen

I wrote this paper in 2015 after I had graduated in 2013 as Master of Arts in business ethics and social responsibility. Today, in 2020, I believe we are trapped in an utilitarian dilemma which means we’d have to decide what is the greatest good for the greatest number of people. This means we’d have to make a choice to either accept that the Coronavirus can’t be eradicated soon enough, thus will kill people now and/or that the effects of the draconian measures such as lock downs and the restricting of freedoms will kill many more by the destruction of livelihoods, unemployment and inevitably causes the collapse of social cohesion by psychological stress, jeopardizing peace and contentment. #systemsthinking #Coronavirus #lockdowns