What is the importance of the ethics if it isn't followed prectically in our daily life?

Question

**(ethics the study of the morals and beilfs)**

Answer 1

Ethics are the rules of our conduct, and they are meaningless unless they fit well with what we actually do.

Following is my point of view:
-It is important to review ourselves from time to time and see if our own individual ethics fit what we actually do in our day-to-day work.

-The ethical implications of our choices in some situations may lead us to act against our own financial or similar self-interests and relation with others.
In some situation applying our ethics would cost us money, time, troubles and even risks. That situation will impose on us assessing what our ethics are worth and what risks we are willing to take to practice our ethics.

-Our ethical values may bring us into serious conflict with our professors, supervisors, employers, colleagues, or friends. Under what circumstances, if any, are we willing to risk a good grade, an important letter of recommendation, a fellowship, a promotion, or a job because to "go along" with what we ourselves believe to be an unethical situation seems wrong?

For me, Attitude and ethics, in my life and career, are essential to gain peoples’ respect, my satisfaction and self respect and eventually success and I would stick to it as far as I can and within my capabilities as a human being.

Answer 2

Absolutism just never works, whether practiced by a monarch or by a moralist.

To study, develop and apply the principles of ethis is surely good and proper. To claim that a lapse in ethics entirely disqualifies its value is absolutist and absurd.

It is childish and immature to decide that an ethical lapse - or an absence entirely, among some conditions or persons - makes any pursuit of ethical behavior worthless. I am reminded of a man who owned a beautiful car, on which he lavished great care. Some years after he acquired the car, it was damaged by a careless relative who had borrowed it. The man promptly sold the car, at a loss, although the repairs had returned the vehicle to its pristine appearance and performance. To the owner of the car, the damage had destroyed its perfection and he could not bear to have it about.

That kind of absolutism is absurd and unrealistic. It is the kind of behavior that leads religious fundamentalists to insist on only their perception of life and faith and to seek to dominate others in order to impose it.

And by the way - that kind of behavior is unethical.

Ethics helps guide us, helps us make difficult decisions, contribues to an appropriate sense of guilt or remorse about bad decisions, and in general provides a compass through the shoals of life. but ethics itself denies absolutism, and acknoowledges failures.

Answer 3

Obviously, if you don't practice such conduct in your daily life, ethics aren't important to you at all. While we live in an increasingly amoral society, I would like to think that most human beings still live by some kind of ethical and moral code.
Where I see that as blatantly not the case is in areas of politics, media, entertainment, big business, organized religion and our American legal system - all of which have become corrupted and vitiated by power and money.
-RKO- 11/18/07

Answer 4

Ethics are like speed limits on the road, you don't have to follow them perfectly all the time, but stay somewhere within the limits. Ethics suffer from "creative interpretation," by those who seem to want to justify their unethical behavior. I.e. a person cheats on his medical exam, passes. His rational, if he becomes a doctor, people will benefit from his skills, so cheating isn't so bad. People we deem unethical aren't bad people, cheaters, just those who view things in a different light. So saying ethics not followed predictably are basically useless is like saying speed limits on roads aren't adhered to, so why not get rid of them, you can imagine the amount of carnage that would produce. Chow

Answer 5

Thinking to form an ethical standard is a very good start. It's better than not thinking about it at all. However there isn't much value unless you actually act on them.

Answer 6

that some people do practice and try to be morally or ethically right. At least i try to; plus you fell better about yourself and bad for the people who are just evil, ruded or ignorant.

Answer 7

lMoral values are not created or not binding externally.If you think that ethics is to be followed and you try to follow that is enough to show its importance.

Answer 8

Paper dogs do not bark, paper cows do not eat grass.

What is not followed in actual ife can not be ethincs and morals at all, they are just spurious things, designed to nefarous ends.

Ethics, definitely can be actualised through life.

Answer 9

Ethics that are not practiced are just illusions.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

It is nolonger important if nobody will practice it . It is only an idea then.