Ethics

The topic of ethics is such a sticky one. People have all kinds of differing ideas about what is ethical and what is not and most likely you will not agree on everything. The exercise we did in class was interesting, especially because we were able to compare our results to those in the book. On some topics we were pretty close, but on others, such as the taking the $200 football tickets, we weren’t so accurate, in fact, we were completely opposite. The book said, I think, 70% said it was unacceptable to take the tickets and our class had about 60% say it was ok. Maybe we’re just really big football fans and they weren’t.

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Posted by: Johnson Wei
Posted on: November 5, 2005 09:41 PM

I agree with you. Ethics should be universal. Morals should be based on social norms, as Powley mentioned. If I were to consider taking those $200 football tickets, I think, "now what would Amanda do". That is thinking morally, since I am comparing myself to social norms, right? If I thought, "taking underserved gifts is wrong". That is thinking ethically?

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