ch assistance (such as calling 911 with the observer's cell phone) is easy and creates no danger for the observer. Failure to help the person in the water is neither a crime nor a tort. Yet most people would think that the failure to call 911 is unethical.
             So conduct can be legal, but unethical.
             Conversely, some illegal conduct would be considered by many people to be ethical. When black people in the American south in the 1950s and1960s refused to sit in the back of public buses, they were breaking the law. Yet many people think that refusing to comply with such racially discriminatory laws was the right thing to do. Within a few years, such racially discriminatory laws were abolished in the United States. Many people would consider these laws themselves to be immoral.
             One source of ethical issues in business settings arises from the traditional legal rule that corporate managers have a legal obligation
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