... ensures a strong market which can almost guarantee future profits for those investors who follow the trades of the insiders carefully. Adversely, the utility theory can be applied negatively to insider trading as well, resulting in possibly devastating incidents. These potential problems include: (1) the insider information obtained ... found in the information available, in turn infringing on societies overall utility. (Velasquez) Immanuel Kant, using a nonconsequentialist approach, created the ethical theory of deontology, in which "moral principles do not rest on contingencies, and th...

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