What do we mean by ethics?
Is ethics a virtue or moral values?
How important is the concept of ethics?
Ethics are standards and framework . It guides our path of life. They are ways to avoid social evils.They put reasonable restrictions.It varies from place to place, person to person.

SOURCES OF ETHICS:

  1. Family plays an important role in shaping a person life.

  2. Education is the most important activity and guides a person.

  3. Media

Why is Ethics important?

  1. Provides principles and objectives in life.

  2. Differentiate between good or bad.

  3. Creates laws, rules and regulation.

  4. Maintain peace and order.

  5. Satisfies basic human needs

  6. Uniting people

  7. Securing the society

CAUSES OF LOSS OF ETHICS:

POLITICAL LEVEL:

  • Corruption

  • Involving caste, religion, sex for the vote

  • Power concentration.

  • Self-aggrandizing

  • Communistic politics

  • Dynasty politics

ENVIRONMENT:

  • Pollution

  • Grenades ,blast,terrorist attack .

SOCIAL LEVELS:

  • Rise of materialism

  • Rise of violence

  • Drug addiction

  • Gender inequality

  • Increase in communitarian view

INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

  • Use of indecent words or language

  • Individual>Collective

  • Loss of empathy

  • Loss of integrity

  • Rise of materialism

  • Disrespecting parents

  • Murder or thief

BIOETHICAL LEVEL

  • Suicide

  • Genetically Modified Organisms

  • Cloning

  • Animal culling

  • Surrogacy

  • Abortion

  • Female foeticide

  • Designer babies

  • Clinical trials.

NEPOTISM LEVEL

  • Rise inequalities

  • The decrease in economy efficiency

  • Dissatisfying culture

  • Demotivated, dishonest officers.

HOW CAN ETHICS CHANGE?

  1. Debates and discussion

  2. Experience

  3. Reasoning

  4. Media

  5. Location

  6. Age

  7. Social Situation .

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