Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do -- Potter Stewart (Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of US) Everyone has a different view of Ethics but all of those views finally merge into one pattern: Right or Wrong. I also had the same issue when I decided to start full-fledged research on this topic. What suddenly prompted me to go into this topic - well it was the last blog of mine. What can you learn as a leader from the movie Drishyam-2. What's the connection you may ask? It was the last paragraph that got me to this topic. I wanted to know if what Georgekutty did was ethical or not. Let's begin that journey and see where we end. Are you ready folks? Let us start with what is ethics anyway? At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy. The term is actually derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character, or disposition. Most of the concept of ethics in any country is basically derived from the religions, philosophies, and cultures of that land. Philosophers have divided Ethics broadly into 3 buckets: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics
Now you may ask if there is any use of Ethics, especially in today's environment. Since the environment is fully infected with Greed and partially hypocritical disease. I feel that Ethics is the only available tablet for these diseases. There is a band of people who believe that Ethics affects the way people or community behaves and there is another group that says that it's only fit for literature study - since most of the people these days are irrational. Ethics works only when you become rational. When I listen to both sides of the story, for me both of them look correct from their perspective. That brings me back to the basic question - which is right? One thing which we must clearly understand is that Ethics will never give you the right answers. Then what does it give? Ethics doesn't always show us the right answer to a moral problem. Indeed more and more people think that for any ethical issue there isn't a single right answer - just a set of principles that can be applied to that case to give those involved some clarity in the choices. I feel that all Ethics does it that it can really clear the confusion and disturbing noise from the issue. After that, it's basically upto the individual to see and make the choice on their own will and judgement. Now - where do Drishyam-2 and Georgekutty come into the frame?
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