Ethics

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Aaron Silverstein
Ethics

By the definition of ethics, “The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession: medical ethics.”( The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.), asking someone if they posses them could bring a broad array of answers to the table. Also falling in line with that are the questions of someone’s morals, “Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous: a moral life.”(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.), which can be directly tied in with ethics. As to if I consider myself to have “good” morals and ethics, I’d say they both fall under common sense.

Saying please and thank you, holding the door for a lady and not chewing with your mouth full, are all typical examples of regular moral values. One’s that are all commonly found in today’s society, one’s that I for one consider common courtesy. To me that may be common courtesy, but to others it would be considered a hassle. So to me the typical thing of just being polite is me being me, not me being ethical or displaying my moral values.

Any decent human being knows the difference between right and wrong. Obviously, if you see an old woman struggling to open a door, you’re not going to just walk right by her and continue on your way, that’s not right. The right thing to do would be to take 2 seconds of your life and open the door for her. To me, all of that is common sense. My moral and ethical values have all been instilled in me since birth, so much so that I don’t think twice about me possessing either of them. I was raised in a matter that you do whatever you can to help a person out in their situation to the fullest extent of your capabilities, if you feel that it is right. I add the “if...