From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 20:35:40 BST
Hi all,
Sam wrote to DMB
"But ethics I see as level 3..."
I see ethics as level 4, very distinctly level 4. It is a school of
philosophy, and philosophy is clearly level 4, right? Ethics talks about
what people ought to do, how they ought to behave, based on intellectual
principles and beliefs that may or may not have evolved out of how people
actually tend to behave (but definitely evolved out of isolated,
extrapolated examples of how people actually behave). It clearly believes
there is only a correlation between how people actually do behave and how
they ought to behave ethically, and that ethics influences and is influenced
by human behavior.
Level 3 morals aren't necessarily ethical at all. It is moral to drive a
car, but is it ethical? It is moral to wear Levi's, but is it ethical? The
morality of something is imperically measurable (though logistically
impossible, and the heisenburg principle applies: the act of measuring how
someone behaves changes their behavior). There always is something socially
moral to do in a given situation, though what it is is never exactly clear
and two people might disagree. The ethics of something is only a matter of
opinion, even if everyone agrees.
Anyone have any thoughts on the value of ethics?
I see the Giant at work in the New York Times every Sunday, when they run
that 'The Ethicist' column. I know what they are up to!
Johnny
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