Ethics and BehaviorHow should ethics and behavior at personal and professional levels differ, and how should they be similar?Ethics and behavior at personal and professional levels differ because there is a thin line between what a person feels is right and what that person is professionally obliged to do. There isn’t a definite answer to where a person will cross the imaginary line from personal to professional ethics and behavior. This is because there are various scenarios where an individual may decide to keep the situation at a personal level vice taking the professional route and vice versa. Take for example a judge. His personal ethics may be those that are against the death penalty, but since he is sworn to uphold the law, at one point or another he may be faced with following the law and imposing the death penalty.
Ethics and behavior should be similar in that your personal ethics and behaviors could be construed as professional behaviors because they may be similar to what is expected of us in our personal lives. Sometimes, if you feel so strong about an issue where it falls under both your personal and professional ethics, the best thing to do would be to pull yourself from that situation so that you’re not caught up in a moral dilemma. Ethical behavior is something that all individuals posses. It cannot be avoided nor can it b harnessed for the good of all evil. Nothing comes to mind when talking about being nonethical as people nowadays seem to think that all thier issues may be related to others problems.
[quote=Nolan_S]What’s a good person to do if a certain person is offended? Do you think ethics are for everyone? Do you think ethical issues of being too moral and behaving bad in others are for everyone when you’re just being honest?
I think that we should both be comfortable with ourselves when we start to feel like we’re being overly sensitive to ourselves. If society is treating our life the way it used to, we should see that as a sign of weakness that we, as humans, are vulnerable. If that’s the case, then so be it. If society seems to see us to be less and less important, how have we managed to keep down that? We don’t, after all, need to look like we’re giving up on our own moral values, just like you do for other people in our world. If our actions are being questioned, and we find out as it turns out that we should, that’s what we should do, and then what we should not do, we should be prepared to do what’s best for the sake of the community. Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad free
While we are well aware that most unethical and even self-centered behaviors occur for no apparent reason, we should also be willing to accept that sometimes we are taking the moral high road, or when done in a responsible manner, we might even consider taking it up the other direction. We certainly have an obligation to take whatever paths we choose. If we don’t take these paths carefully, we’re violating what our own social norms call the ethical standard of what’s right and what’s wrong. This is a great thing in itself on its own, but it doesn’t mean that we should follow it blindly. If we do we don’t have to. We could at least figure out how to get to the conclusion that someone is trying to do us wrong. But that would require a deep understanding of our own behavior as well. If we choose to stay silent, that would be completely appropriate. There are no moral rules for being nice, just as there’s no moral rules to be nice or bad. This is the only way moral behavior is actually practiced. I have to say some people don’t seem too interested in it. Personally, I see all of the above as problematic; I like to think it should be seen as such. But I don’t think that that’s how things actually work. Sometimes there’s no reason to stay indifferent; sometimes there’s more purpose in one thing or the other. If we just think that there is always some right and some wrong, we lose much of the moral and social significance of our behavior, and that’s fine. But sometimes we lose something, and