Unocal

JORDAN AND CHARLES

There are three components of moral responsibility; these are causality, knowledge, and freedom.  According to our discussion, we define causality as the one who caused or help cause the injury. Knowledge on the other hand, is the person who knows what he or she doing. Lastly, we describe Freedom as a person did so his or her free will. So let us now see how Unocal and Chevron became morally responsible in the issue.

Unocal

CAUSALITY

Due to the fact that Unocal made a partnership with Burmese military to provide security, certain issues has been raised such as force labor and brutalizing that is why they are greatly involved in the injuries that happened to the people of Karen.

KNOWLEDGE

Before Unocal enter this project, they conducted a research on the social-political environment of the country and they found out that human rights violation was present in the country. To check the situation, Unocal managers hired a consulting firm to verify the said information and/or to review the 1991 Amnesty International report that showed extrajudicial killings and force labor were present in the country. At the end, they again found out that these problems were valid. Because of these circumstances, Unocal still decided to invest in the project. In short, Unocal aware of the brutal methods that the army of Southern Burma is doing to provide "security" for UNOCAL workers and it's equipment.

FREEDOM

No one forced Unocal to invest in the project that held in Burma. On other words, it was their free will to choose to invest for that and it was led into torture, murder, rape, and relocation of the people of Karen.

Chevron Corporation

Meanwhile, Chevron is also morally responsible for this situation. The basis for this is from the Partnership and Corporation Code in which if one company bought or paid in full amount a company for the purpose of owning it. But this company has a current case filed in the court, the company or entity who bought that existing company who has a pending case is responsible for that pending case in which part of the liabilities as the new owner of the said company.