So, when your boss is asking you to design a better way of hiding the waste products from your industrial projects that you know could hurt folks-- that's a goo

So, when your boss is asking you to design a better way of hiding the waste products from your industrial projects that you know could hurt folks-- that's a good place where having some ethical principles might help. Without those principles, people are often left with "I am just doing my job" and "this is what any person would do, right"? Whereas a lot of us won't do certain things because, say, if everybody did them they'd be self contradictory (Kant) or when we look at the overall utility of dumping toxic waste into a river we might it has some larger negative consequences for society (Mill).