Evaluate the following scenario from the perspective of ethical egoism theory? A

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Evaluate the following scenario from the perspective of ethical egoism theory?

An (absent minded) work colleague goes on holiday without sharing an important group report, which needs to be submitted next week. The latest version is stored on the colleague’s personal cloudbox account. Cloudbox is a cloud based storage system, which uses passwords to control access.

Since Cloudbox is beyond the reach of your IT department, you suspect that there is nothing you can do. However, another colleague knows that the absent colleague always uses their children’s birthdays as passwords and all the children have FriendFace accounts. It seems likely that you should be able to get the group report after all as long as the children haven’t restricted access to their FriendFace pages.

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Ethical egoism is the view that each of us ought to pursue our own self-interest, and no-one has any obligation to promote anyone else’s interests. I guess because the principle of ethical egoism is based on impartiality therefore I need to ask for help from the colleague since providing the password would be in the good of the company. It has got nothing to do with personal gains but for the gain of the company. I know the colleague would be having good relations with that absent minded worker and might refuse to help because he doesnt want to spoil his relations with him. But it would depend upon my convincing power that providing the password would do no harm to their relation since this sacrifice would be for the greater of the company.Most of us behave like this, seeking a balance between egoism and altruism.

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