Saturday, January 2, 2010

Natural Ethics

We are created with ethics. It is built into us. We have an emotional response to an unethical situation—it is usually anger, but it could possibly be fear, sorrow, grief or loneliness.

For most of us, ethics is strictly emotional. “Right and wrong” is that which we innately sense is “right and wrong.” However, our emotional reasoning often leads us to an ethic that might seem fair to us but not to those around us.

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