In was cruisin' through the zero answers section and found this one?
"Are personal ethics and legal ethics distinct?"
Now, this is a very, very good question. If Matha Stewart had asked this there would be 25,000 answers because many people would have bothered to look up "ethics" and "distinct." Surprise me and give this poor deserving question at least one answer. Just doing my good deed for the day. Have a nice one on me.
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I agree with you, excellent question and deserving of many answers. Here's one.
Ethics, as defined in my synonym finder, can be applied at any level of thought or behavior, legal, personal, business, political, etc.
Personal; interpreted by ones self to serve ones self interest.
Legal; mandated judicial agreement reached by those
appointed to interpret concepts for the many.
Distinct; no, there is a conflict built in between legal and personal ethics. Conflict is the engaging of ideas, debate, resources, some-times wars, to try to reach a sameness, there will always be a distinct application of ethics by people, in order to maintain their individuality.
A hard question, more complex than I have the education to address properly, but deserving of an answer.
While I like to think that ethics are ethics and there is no distinction between the two, there are thousands of people maybe more who everyday treat them distinctly different.
An assshole will have bad personal ethics, but may be forced to practice good ethics at work for fear of loosing a job.
~Martha
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