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November 05, 2005
Ethical My A**
My understanding of ethics differed from the general consensus of the class. While I agreed that ethics differed from having good morals, I disagree that ethics explored the grey areas between the white and the black. Last year, I too had a curiosity for ethics and also regarded ethics as exploring the fine line between "good" and "bad" "things".
However, after taking Philosophy 205, an ethics course, I garnered that ethics was not doing the right thing--which was what Professor Powley had said. Ethics is often a "lose-lose" situation. The best example is the case of the mob boss. Suppose a mob boss came knocking on *your* door, having managed to hack through dorm security doors and somehow bypassing the many hidden security cameras on campus. The mob boss demands to know where your friend is hiding. Do you lie to the mob boss to save your friend, or do you give your friend up, sending him to certain doom? The "right thing to do" is to save your friend...indicative of good morals, or "social norms" as Powley put it. Ethically, however, neither choice is justifiable. Lying is wrong. Sending your friend to his death is wrong. While my professor in the ethics course highly disagreed with a "lesser of two evils" approach, this is what I have come to define ethics as. While not everything is ethically justifiable, go with the lesser of two evils. I must think this way otherwise I would have gone insane long ago. My battles with darth vader are over. I have become the evil I have sought to destroy! muahahahaha ^_^
Posted by jxw115 at November 5, 2005 09:09 PM
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