Right or Wrong??

Often elders state that a child should be trained as to what is right and what is wrong at the early stage itself. 


How many of us (I mean the adults), know what is right or wrong? 

How many times we have been tattered between two answers? 

How many times we define what is right and wrong, on a given situation? 

Have you had a mental conflict in taking some decision that involved what is right or wrong? 

How many times we have justified ourselves for doing something wrong, because the given situation demands? 

And how many of us have done something unethical just to save someone-just to help someone? 

All of us would have faced an ethical dilemma in our life at least once. Isn’t that true? All of us have! Indeed. And often, these ethical dilemmas are the underlying reasons for an individual to commit/not commit a crime like corruption, bribery, etc.

 

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According to Wikipedia,

Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality — that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, justice, virtue, etc.

Major branches of ethics include:

• Meta-ethics, about the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions and how their truth-values (if any) may be determined;

• Normative ethics, about the practical means of determining a moral course of action;

• Applied ethics, about how moral outcomes can be achieved in specific situations;

• Moral psychology, about how moral capacity or moral agency develops and what its nature is; and

• Descriptive ethics, about what moral values people actually abide by. 

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 Ethics is a term which people take it as a freedom of perception. Every one has their own definition for Ethics. What is ethical to you might not / need not necessarily be ethical to me!  I am an enthusiast when it comes to debating about ethics. This is one topic I would never get tired of. Doesn’t it kindle one’s opinion and touch the subliminal thoughts??

Educating children on and about Ethics is rather done from elementary school, but not only restricted to classrooms and schools. We learn it everyday, all throughout the life, when we face the real life situations.

There were some fascinating ethical discussions during the Management lectures back while in my MBA. They stimulated every student to think, argue, discuss the outcomes, and always we saw arguments getting fueled in the classroom atmosphere. This is one such example :-

“You are attending an interview with ITC group of companies. You impress the hiring manager that he/she immediately offers you a post of Sales and Marketing Officer for Tobacco Products Division. Major parts of your role involve increasing the Cigarette Sales in and around your Sales area. Will you take this offer or not?” “Will you be happy/proud about taking this offer?”

What do you say??