Week 2.3 Ethics and Why do we need them?

The textbooks make an important statement about the importance of ethics " It is the clash of different ethical principles or duties that make many moral decisions difficult."

The ethical principles of a particular society or a person i think are dependent on their culture. I feel that Ethics are learned from the society and people around you by observing them and treating what others treat as acceptable to be ethical. The textbook listed some practical reasons for ethics like ethics help us get together, ethics help us to get along with each other, ethics gives us hope for betterment, ethics keep things going and ethics puts ideals into practice.

Ethics should be about doing the right thing are not some rules that people need to follow. We see a lot multinational organizations do things that they never do in one country but do them in others, as that culture might not respond to their behavior in same way. I think its very difficult to understand whether people or companies are "really being ethical" or just doing so to look like that.