Western Digital, the Irvine, California-based maker of disk drives, recalled about 400,000 of its hard drives because of a faulty internal chip. The chip would not affect the disk drive motor until after six to 12 months of use. This delay in the problem's appearance meant that many consumers would not think to blame the disk drive manufacturer. But, instead of taking the less expensive route of remaining quiet about the problem, Western Digital chose to offer replacement disk drives for all those that had the faulty chip. This action is an example of

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Answer: Moral idealism

Explanation: Under the moral idealism theory the individual rights are given utmost importance regardless of loss it can cause to oneself. It is personal moral philosophy.

In the given case, the company chooses to offer the replacement even though they could have easily avoided that without any loss. This depicts that they value their consumers more than their profit or loss. This depicts the company's long term thinking approach.

Hence from the above we can conclude that the given case is an example of moral idealism.

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