Nick choosing to appeal to the jurors’ emotions and make them vote on a verdict using their hearts because as Anne Frank once said, “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart”. According to a principle from the Humanitarian Ethics, particularly the Principle of Justice, every one of the juror are human beings, thus they would like to be treated fairly and that justice is served. When integrated with the Golden Rule, it resulted in the jurors voting for justice in case in favor of Celeste Wood. The Golden Rule wants people to ask themselves the question of “How would I like to be treated in this situation?” (Maxwell 16) and that means because each of the ten jurors wanted justice for them as well if they were in her position. As read in Maxwell’s book, some companies take advantage of people by going against the Golden Rule with …show more content…
The Golden Rule, also known as the reversibility criterion by Immanuel Kant, states that we should “Don unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Thiroux and Krasemann 153). The actions by Vicksburg which were implied in the movie during the court proceedings not only showed that they went violating the Golden Rule because they do not care that their business operations endanger people. Two such examples are when the clerk of a gun company associated with the gun manufacturer did not check why a customer bought a lot of guns in such a short period of time and the gun manufacturer’s CEO claimed that due to the second amendment, anything done by gun owners are not their problem. The first example shows that negligence on the company’s part not only help with the company’s profits, but also the fact that clerk reaped the spoils by getting a chance to going on a vacation to a tropical area because of the huge amount of sales that he makes monthly (Fleder “Runaway