What Is Being Ethical for You?

What is being ethical for you?

I think being ethical is when you recognize the good and bad things that a person might cause or do, which may lead to a chaotic or peaceful environment. Ethics can also be defined as being able to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

Majority of the people learn on how to be ethical at their homes, schools and in churches by interacting with others and correcting them, when they have done an unacceptable behaviour. Also most people acquire their sense of doing what is right and wrongful doings during our childhood, a person’s morality develops at different times and stages of their growth as they mature. Ethical values can be found everywhere that some people might consider it as commonsense.  But even that some people regard ethical values commonsense, still some people have issues or questions the disasters that some people do to our environment and society.

A possible cause of people who are still doing unacceptable behaviors is the misinterpretation and application of these ethical values. For example: a person stole a wallet full of money, so that his starving family can eat for a day or two. That person stole a wallet which means that person did an unethical deed, but he only did that just to feed that persons starving family which is a good thing but in a wrongful doing.

Society these days have legal rules or law that conduct policies to control the behavior to those who lives in that particular area. I think that laws or legal rules are an informal form of ethical values by punishing someone who did illegal doings in unethical way to discipline them or to teach them a lesson that they will not forget so that they will not do it again. Most governments punish the illegal doers in a form that is morally accepted by the society but still some uses a more unethical manner of punishments.  Laws and ethics are not the same, because laws can be legal or morally accepted but unethical or illegal but ethical.

Human beings are drawn forward by their perspective view towards possibilities of the future at the same time. When people do something that might happen in the near future, they can behave as long as to self-fulfilling prophecy or expect the inevitable. The challenge is to achieve goals and picturing an ideal ethical culture for the population to create a good life.

Being ethical is not the same as doing what the society accepts. In a society most people accept standards that are in fact ethical. The standard behavior of a country can deviate from being ethical.