I try on a shirt in a shop and it accidentally gets damaged, so i put that one back and get another one.  I then fel guilty should I own up? From a consequentialist perspective what happens in the following scenarios? 1. I say nothing 2. I buy the damaged one as well 3.  I leave and buy neither   I'm now trying to understand this from a business decision point of view. What business decisions might be different depending on whether I take a consequence based approach or a actions based approach?

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Please refer to the previous question i submitted as this is a follow up question:

I try on a shirt in a shop and it accidentally gets damaged, so i put that one back and get another one.  I then fel guilty should I own up?

From a consequentialist perspective what happens in the following scenarios?

1. I say nothing

2. I buy the damaged one as well

3.  I leave and buy neither

 

I'm now trying to understand this from a business decision point of view.

What business decisions might be different depending on whether I take a consequence based approach or a actions based approach?

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