Unethical About Ethics
>> Monday, February 15, 2010
Ethics is defined as the moral principles one possess. The principles, the morality and inner wisdom that specifies the approach to life is what we call component of ethics. The basic attitude towards one's profession, reaction and behavior is well capable of deciding the consequence one can face at the fag end of his professional life.
A child afraid of darkness is probably wiser than a man afraid of light. Here is there a element of fear that resides in everyone. If a person claims to be brave then he too has the element of fear -- the fear of not being afraid. One can wonder that how fear is related with ethical values? In my opinion the element of fear is one of the integral part of a person. A person refrains from doing wrong only if he is afraid of the consequences. Here it can be laid emphasis on the existence of fear that restores ethical values that is entirely responsible for a person's being different from beasts.
There is a shear and bare exhibition of law that some times results to be brutal in courts, the so called place of lawful people. Is punishing somebody a ethical act? If yes, then what is ethical about this act, and if no then how a convict should be treated? Ethics is not a law, not a rule or not a premise that constraints one's act, it's all about the value that lets its bearer to be within the fence of values that count.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT... Does not the phrase itself dread even a beast? Is it really a ethical act for a person, probably who is not ethical to sound capital punishment? who is more ethical, the judge who echoed the capital punishment or the convict who accepts the punishment because he had no other punishment because he had no other option to opt. I really wonder about it and feel that we are probably the innocent pawn who move according to the orders, which is probably sometimes unethical.
Ethics are perhaps set of unethical values that probably says absorb me to be apparently ethical !!!These are the ideas that crept into me when I had lent my patient but restless ear to pre-programmed chirping LADIES...
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I think defining ethics is not a simple task. Basically ethics as you have said is moral principles, i would say more of moral philosophy. Ethics basically tries to define what is GOOD or BAD,Virtue or Vice,Beneficial or harmful in larger context.Judgment of Ethics can be done keeping in view the larger good of the society and cannot be applied at individual level as in the case of Capital Punishment.I would like to ask a question here. Capital Punishment is awarded for murder of a human.Why people who kill animals day in day out are not punished? Are humans predators? If killing an animal to fulfill our need is acceptable then murder also must be reviewed based on the necessity of it to the accused.
Well, sir I too thought as you think. I asked this to one of my friend who eat beef. I argued in the same way as you did now. I got an answer which I couldn't defy. He said in order to maintain ecological balance slaughtering is not bad. Cattle grow faster and can be more in number than people out here. In order to maintain a balance the growth of them is checked.. this was the answer I got
Ethic is a big topic. The most important part is that each and everyone has to live according to the ethics one declares.
If you regard putting someone to death animal or human is regarded unethical then you have to find ways to live without leather, meat.....
Nature shows everyday it is part of live to kill to get food. Cheeta, lions, crocodiles, eagles and lots of other animals does so.
So I think the ethical part is who does it for which reason.
If you observe societies the most cruel ones are this that claim to be living to certain ethics.
The basic of ethics is love: Love for yourself and other living beings. People killed animals for ages, to have something to eat. They only did as much as was neccessary. They used the bones, skinn, everything, thanked nature and left the rest for animals.
Today lots of animals are raised in ways far from the natural way. They are filled with medication and food that is against their needs. Lots of the animals are killed by illnesses or aggression before even they go to see the butcher.
Lots of people buy and eat that. Is that ethical?
Is it ethical regarding the live of the animals?
Is it ethical to give this poisoned meat to people?
Is it ethical to avoid telling people about the risks for their health and that of the environment?
I think people have to learn to love and respect themselves and all living creatures including as well animals and plants.
We all are part of a system called nature. Respecting it is the basic ethic.
Larissa
okay larissa I got th sense that you intended to convey. I have really understood and have nothing to argue on rather I would say that I don't have a different thought.
I have, however, dared to take an sensitive issue of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. I have a opinion about that which I have stated in the post itself. How far do you agree with me, and if not what do you think on it?
I would, rather put this question that echoes in my mind to whoever reads this post. I would be glad to have my idea refined on this issue
Anand
Murder is a premeditated act, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared as this act is done with no respect and regard for the life of the victim. The death penalty would have been wrong if the criminal had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him. Arguably the life of the one who has no respect for the lives of others need not be treated equally as he/she has proved their inequality.
It is also a fact that people often kill when under great emotional stress or under the influence of drugs or alcohol - times when they are not thinking of the consequences (Death Penalty Focus). Career criminals and those that plan a crime do not expect to get caught, thus making the consequences an invalid issue. In response to the fact that a executed murderer will never kill again, society must ask itself whether it is morally and ethically acceptable to risk killing the person when an alternative such as life imprisonment without possibility of parole exists. However,life imprisonment may become more crueler than execution depending on the conditions and the environment of the prisons.
to Jedicool:
The death penalty is always wrong. It makes me, as a member of the state, also a killer. Death is never an option for punishment.
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