11.) Are ethical principles relative or subjective? Explain your position.?

Question

Are ethical principles relative or subjective? Explain your position.

Answer 1

--It depends on the type of ethics you are wishing to use, most people make convienent choices.

There are the immoral ethics found in politics, entertainment, business, false religion, medical field.

--Biblical ethics are of the highest nature--but most choose to ignore the principles found within because as one atheist said:

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Atheist Aldous Huxley’s “We objected to the morality [of the Bible] because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

--Note how obscene ethics are found in the medical field:

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A curiously skewed view of life is evident in the medical community. As recently as the early 1970’s, a baby born after just 23 weeks in the womb had almost no chance of survival. Today, perhaps up to 40 percent of such premature babies can survive. In view of this, how ironic it is that worldwide an estimated 40 to 60 million abortions occur every year! The majority of these abortions are performed on fetuses just weeks younger than the premature infants doctors struggle to keep alive! Does not the above suggest that great moral confusion prevails?

--My position is simply based on the logic that God would not leave mankind to flounder without the greatest of guidlines, such are contained in the Bible.
--Many, like to say look at the violence, immorality, dishonesty that the Bible contains, and try to denounce it for the reports it makes on such activities!

--BUT--- the Scriptures always portray these incidents in the context, they were meant to be seen in, and that would be in the wrongness and presented as WARNINGS for all of us. Please note after a report made by the Jewish lawyer Paul of the perverted behaviour of the Israelites at the time of Moses what is concluded:

(1 Corinthians 10:11) “11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.”

Answer 2

ethical principals - relative to what? human beings generally misuse relative for subjective. Relativity is a few thing having, or status in, some relation to some thing else; comparative. ethical principals are subjective: a million. latest in the techniques; belonging to the thinking concern incredibly than to the article of theory. 2. concerning or function of somebody. Ethics can pertain to a team or somebody. Ethics in government relates to the majority, on a similar time as no 2 individual's ethics are precisely a similar. Do you think of you need to take the numbers off next time you reproduction from a try?

Answer 3

I think that they are a little bit subjective and a little bit relative.

It depends on what is someone's opinion about a principle in order to respect it or not. If you want to do something that isn't considered ethical you may look at the principle as subjective.

Answer 4

Ethics are subjective. They deal with duty and duty, in and of itself, has no relativistic morality. Only adherence to the precieved requirements for the discharge of assigned duties.

Answer 5

Some of both: Some are always right or wrong (it's always wrong to steal, lie, cheat, murder). Other things are more subjective. i.e. I must do a or b. choice a) will harm group x people/environment/etc in this manner while choice b) will harm group y people/environment/etc in a different manner. choice a) benefits group y and choice b) benefits group x.