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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Will, salemanship is the antithesis of business ethics. It's about forcing the facts into an argument that someone who wants something actually needs it. No one NEEDS a Prius since there are lots and lots of alternatives. They convince themselves that do need it, and the salesman's job is to help them do it at this dealership instead of the one down the street.
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That's not completely true. Yes, it is the responsibility of the salesperson to themselves and their company to do their best to sell a car, but there is also a responsibility to your customers to serve. I'm not a proponent of the free market economy, but I recognize that a company that abuses it's customers can easily be damning itself to failure. Aside from the logical argument, the moral argument, selling the product based on TRUE information, should also be considered. The idea that salesmen aren't responsible for what they say or do makes no sense. Disinformation and false advertising, as we see above, are their responsibility to avoid.
I wouldn't want to live in a world where we excuse immoral and unethical practices simply because someone wants to make a buck. I mean, I don't see a reasonable man like you, The_Jazz, thinking that the Haliburton war profiteering is in any way right. I am, of course, not suggesting that what has happened here is on the same scale as Haliburton, but the doing anything for a buck philosophy has serious problems.