Ethics; Where to start?

While listening and soaking in everything we have been talking about in class about Ethics, some our own and ones that not everyone abides by, I began to start thinking about my own Ethics and its importance to me and how I live my life. When we first started talking about Ethics I started to thinking about morals and the connection from that to ethics, and what each one means. I believe that not everyone can actually have the same exact set of morals, but they can be extremely similar, I think this because there is really no way (I believe) that two people can have the same exact way of life and the same opinions of everything that happens in life to lead to those morals. Ethics on the other hand if a bit more complex than morals are, in my opinion.

Ethics to me are complex, detailed and sometimes stressful but it also if a very helpful subject that I truly do believe we need. Without Ethics, people would be running around crazy because they would not have a barrier, lets say, to keep them in and on the right track. Ethics to me is a set of rules, that are not there to annoy or for no reason but they are there to help people do the right things and to really help yourself and other people stay safe and keep them progressing on the right path. I do not have many Ethics that i noticed when I first started to think about them actually, but when I started to think more into detailed I saw that I actually have some in common with other people. Even though I might have Ethics in common with other people they still will not be exactly the same, due to the way different people read and interpret them.

When I began to think about my very own ethics I began by first starting to think about what would happen and how would I feel if we never had these ethics around us. This helped me realize that my first ethic was more on an emotional and mental form rather a physical things like, stealing, etc. One of my Ethics is "I will not change who I am for anyone, and stand up for what I believe in". This is an extremely important Ethic to me because if you changed for everyone and you did not have a set person on who you are and you constantly changed for others you would not be yourself and technically nobody, not even you, would know the truth as to who you are. You also should always stand by your beliefs because even if they are not the most common, they are your own and they are as important and as realistic as everyone else and everything else. The rest of my Ethics branch off of mostly being yourself and keepings yourself happy while staying in the rule of not injuring yourself, or other people, and making sure that you stay on the right track by using these Ethics.