Ethical Issues

Ethics is the application of morality within a context established by cultural and professional values, social tradition, and accepted standards of behavior.

• Morality refers to values subscribed to and promoted by society in general and individuals within society.

• Ethical behavior is that which falls within the limits prescribed by morality.

• Ethical questions are rarely black and white, but typically fall into a gray area between the extremes of right and wrong. (Personal experience, self-interest, point of view, and external pressure often cloud this gray area further.)

THIS FOLDEDMIND (Mind Map #33: [Gray Area])

 

 

 

 

 

 



Do Gray Areas exist in our lives ?

Do we mean Gray Areas as far as unclear situations? By way of ignorance, sure. Most everything we do or say is a matter of estimation or theory. However if you mean Gray Areas as it is related to moral/ethical questions, as to how one should live or what one should do I'd have to say no.

If we are about to accept the idea that there are gray areas of life then it stands to reason that by  the requirement of comparison alone there must be White and Black areas. In principle 100% correct choices or responses and 100% incorrect.

If there is in fact a correct course of action, in any situation, then the principle of "being correct" must have some inherent value or form universally.

If there is a universal "correctness" then there can be no "Gray" areas as it pertains to living one's life as everything done can either be seen to support or not-support what is correct.

If an action seemed not to affect living correctly or acting correctly in one way or the other, completely uncertain, to commit that action is allowing yourself to be used for a purpose other than what you should do.

Of course it's not reasonable for any man to believe he knows what he should or should not do at a given point, to have that knowledge would approach the area of uncertainty but still the ideal decision is set.

What I am trying to say is, whenever you accept anything as having definite values or qualities then an immediate contradiction is created. All things with said value on one side and all things without on the other.

 

References :

1. "Ethics." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Feb. 2014. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.
2. N.p., n.d. Web