American All Call
American Ethics – The
Supreme Ethic
By Sam Frescoe,
Veteran’s Recall
In prior posts I presented my
thoughts on morality, morals, and why they are critically important to the
American way of life. Now it’s time to discuss what “morals in action” look
like day-to-day. It’s time to discuss ethics.
Ethics
Ethics are rules of behavior
concerning the application of morals. In other words, ethics are ideas
about what is good and bad behavior. In this way they are related to morals.
However, because ethics are driven by the preferences of society and dominate
culture, they are subordinate to morals and moral thinking.
Ethics are commonly categorized
by vocation, profession, or social situation. To cover all of this ground is
not reasonable for this blog. Additionally, I am not qualified to speak to the
ethical boundaries of every individual vocation, profession, or social
situation out there. However, I would like to speak about what I consider to be
the supreme ethic.
If there is a supreme ethic that
governs and guides all other ethics, then let it be this ethic.
The Supreme Ethic
Appreciate, respect, dignify,
and esteem your fellow Americans as yourself.
Going Forward
Vocational, professional, and
situational ethics are important. Ethics tell us how to interact with each
other. Ethics are important just as manners are important.
Still, ethics, unconstrained by
morals and morality, are the tools of tyranny and the playground of tyrants.
Ethics are cultural norms (subjective) while morals are absolutes (objective). There
is no substitute for sound moral thinking.
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