Ethics and Morality

Since information technology personnel can have a significant impact (both positive and negative) on a business, it is important to be able to trust IT personnel to do the right thing. Ethics is a field which helps define what is the right thing to do. See related links for an article which goes into some details about ethics and information technology.

Ethics may or may not be enforced, whereas laws are supposed to be. Ethics if they are codified are usually done so unofficially, while laws are codified by a government. A violation of ethics may also be a violation of laws, but not necessarily. Ethics may be personal as well as collective, and laws are intended to apply to people collectively. Ethics may vary among people and institutions, and laws are supposed to apply equally. All ethics are ethical, not all laws are ethical.

In general terms, any given culture to be found around the world will have both 'material' and 'non-material' dimensions or sides.

No value maximization isn't always ethical. If it costs businesses more to add value to products and it jeopardizes whether the product will be purchase, than it is not ethical, since businesses have a duty to stockholders.

You get to burn in hell for all eternity with the rest of us sinners.

During a job interview, an employer might ask how the prospective employee describes their work ethic. The potential employee should always say that they have a very stringent work ethic, but they should also add in real life examples that reinforce that idea.

a person who has good work ethics often shows up to work on time or early. They also are willing to go above and beyond their responsibilities and often help team members complete other tasks.

There are no universal moral truths because culture dictates morality and culture various through time and space. There are particular moral truths within specific cultures but not any universal moral truths.

A tool is a person who is tricked, paid, coerced or otherwise controlled by others to do dishonest or unpleasant actions that the controller does not want to be seen doing.

Example: The rich college boys didn't realize she was just a tool of the cult leader, luring them into joining his cult.

There are several ways which show how you go above and beyond the call of duty. Some of them include working late, defending the company against all odds and so much more. This is indicated by self-sacrifice.

There are 10 key values of the American culture: Equal Opportunity, Individual achievement and personal success, Material comfort, Activity and work, Practicality and efficiency, Progress, Science, Democracy and free enterprise, Freedom, and Racism and group superiority. (Macionis)

A hedonist is someone who strives to achieve the maximum amount of pleasure possible without pain. They believe that life should be enjoyed to its fullest potential and that they should only do what ultimately makes they happy.

Yes. Because morality is a nebulous concept many consider abortion and capital punishment to be amoral. Others find usury, lying and fraud to be amoral, but generally all are legal to one degree or another.

If you are waiting for someone on this site to write the answer for you, then I would guess it's not very good.

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One scientific question that is relevant to ethics is the question of psychological egoism. As a matter of fact, is a human being so constituted so as always to seek one's own advantage? In other words, is self-love the only basic principle of human nature? Other scientific questions relevant to ethics relate to questions of retributive (not distributive) justice. According to a scientific account of human nature, how is it possible to praise, blame, or otherwise hold an individual responsible for that individual's actions? At what point of incapacity does a person not become responsible? Many questions about the good life relate to questions about the nature of being human.

The relationship between science and Ethics

Experts say that the Modern World began on 1919 when a couple pictures takes from Sobral, Brazil and Occidental Africa proved a new theory of the universe, "The Theory of Relativity". This sounded as the voice of a new era, and it was. Due to this pictures, during most of the 1920´s, the world experienced a decline in the religious beliefs, especially among the educated people because they realized, thank to science, that the world "created by gods" and described in old books, never existed. Consequently, how can people even consider that science do not affect ethics?

Throughout history, there have been thousand of scientists who, with their discoveries and ideas, have influenced the world. I would only describe three of them, which I consider the most influential thinkers of recent times. Our history begins with Galileo. He created on the XVII century, what became the ferment of the natural philosophy which was the origin of the scientific and industrial revolutions. On the other hand, The Newtonian physics which was a huge part of the XVIII century Enlightment also contributed to the modern nationalism and the revolutionary politics while the Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest was the key element in both, the Marxist concept of class warfare as well as the racial philosophies that shaped Hitlerism.

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I think the questioner may be confused in asking their question. Stolen property is "Fruits of the Crime." A"Motion to Suppress" is a legal motion made to a judge to have something prevented from being introduced at trial. There COULD be a motion made to suppress the introduction of stolen property. (???)

There are several important ways to demonstrate ethical behavior. Keeping a clean environment, healthy food choices, and appropriate learning material are all important in the development of a child.

distress experienced by the person when unable to act based on ethics

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