Ethics is the meaning of boundaries or moral principles that govern an individuals behavior. Everyone has a different set of ethics that they follow, and I believe that the ethics an individual follows defines their character and maturity. As for me, I never really found importance to having a set of ethics until last year, when learning about ethics in a class. For my ethical philosopher, I most relate to Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that each person should live a life without the artificial limits of moral obligation. I, also, agree with this statement. Every individual should be able to live without subjecting to social and moral opinions around them, and live to what the believe, yet at a reasonable manner. If ones belief is to get rid of the entire human race, that is obviously not a reasonable moral or ethical standard to hold. Ethics should be used to define what a person feels is right or wrong of them to do. This could, although, mean that one person will have a different opinion as to what is right and what is wrong, however this should not influence your own ethics.
What I believe is right and wrong in life could take an entire week to get through, but summarizing my ethical code is a better way of explaining it. One important part of my ethical code is to not express or share every detail of my life, what I go through, and the hard times I encounter to the public. Way to often on social media, people post updates every day on their life, the small cold they have, an event they went to at their friend of a friend house, etc. In my opinion, it is too much. If the people that are liking those statuses were actually interested in your life, they would be in your life, not on your social media life. The only people you could to tell your life story to is the people that are actually there with you in your everyday life. Therefore, never will I ever, post my life story on social media, or give constant updates on the small, unimportant things to the public. Another important ethical code I hold to myself is to never try and take someones respect. I try not to engage myself with people who do not seem interested in becoming apart of my life, it seems to only cause problems and unstable friendships. Therefore, if someone does not seem to care for me, I will never try to make them like me or be friends with me, meaning trying to get their respect. If it happens, it happens. I believe everything happens for a reason, and respect can not be taken from someone.
Although, that is just a small portion of what I believe and the ethics I hold to myself, it is a good amount to show who I am as a person and my character. Everyone has a set of ethics they hold by, because we all have things we believe is right and wrong, whether we have defined them or not. I think defining those into a code of ethics is important in developing as a person, especially in how one matures and grows. Ethics can help define who you are as person, and as for myself, having a set of ethics has helped me prepare for the adult life I will soon have.
Brittany, I thought this blog post was very insightful! When reading the first paragraph, you said how everyone should be able to live the life they want. This just made me wonder about you thoughts dealing with society. Now, society is so structured, do you think this hinders our ability to live the way we choose? In your second paragraph, I like how you talked about social media. It seems that people don't always act within their morals while on social media. Do you think social media is a damage to our moral and ethical code?
ReplyDeleteThis post really did help me to see your point of view and the way that you think of ethics and what your own personal ones are. To answer your question personally in the last paragraph, I do think that it has the ability to damage our ethical code but it does not do it automatically if it is used correctly. I think that for it to be a damage it has to be used incorrectly and that the person using it that way would know that they are doing it. This was a really good post!
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