Danyelle Dashiell
5/11/2012

Ethics is a principle main idea of what is right and what is wrong. It has everything to do with your morality and how you conduct yourself. It answers the question of “What do I do?” in many situations that we face. By using ethics, we categorize our values in life and pursue them. In life, this is an important element that we, as a society, base our decisions upon because it is our means of deciding which course of action to take. With developing an ethical standard in our life, we are able to organize goals and actions to accomplish our most important values. Any flaws that we do have in our ethics can reduce our ability to be successful in our endeavors.

In order to lay down a proper foundation of ethics we must gain a standard of values to which all our goals and actions can be compared. The standard of our foundation can be defined by our lives and experiences within them. I believe that our system of ethics should not just be applied to heavy situations, but to the day-to-day choices that we make constantly. This can include our relationship to others and society.

Ethics is something that challenges us everything because we face situations almost constantly, in which we have to make a decision of determining what’s right and what’s wrong. It is critical in the sense of examining various moral beliefs and practices. This can involve looking at certain values and behaviors and judging them, and asking or determining which ones matter more in the sort of situation.

I based my code of ethics through moral values and what I was brought up on through out the years growing up. All the things that we learn and experience in life come from a code of ethics. Ethics affects us almost everyday in life because we come across certain situations that challenge our standard of values. We have the choice to choose