Observation (which response do you like?)
Too often "ethics and morality" used almost as synonyms. This ambiguity and can be exploited.
Response 1
Ethics regards a wide range of relationships; morality
regards one's own emotional/spiritual health; they are
different, but very interdependent. Ethics is like the
relationship of the planets to each other and the sun,
whereas morality is equivalent to each planet revolving on its own axis.
Response 2
The analogy of the planets' interaction among
themselves (ethics) vis-a-vis their own rotation
around their own axis (morals) seems appropriate. If
individuals revolve around a moral axis (this is often
called a "moral compass") then their relations among each other will be ethical.
Response 3
My Microsoft Outlook thesaurus under tools shows “unethical” as a synonym for “amoral” but not for “immoral” However, “immoral” is a synonym for “amoral”! The breaking of the circle in the synonym links indicates that the issue is a bit foggy.
2007-10-19
11:04:07
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