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Ethics vs Morals


Who decides what right and wrong? Whats morally or ethically correct? This is a topic i love, so im creating this to rant and rave about it. Trust me, i could write an essay and more of my thoughts on this.

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Re: Ethics vs Morals


Alright, here we go.

The difference between ethics and morals is what your doing, and why your doing it. You could be doing something ethically bad, for a morally good reason. Let me explain. Ill use an example from a book I recently read, that had a lot of very good commentary on the subject of human morality. Sycthe by Neal Shusterman. Scythe Anastasia employs a slightly underhanded, or unethical tactic to delay the tallying of a vote that could possible make an evil and corrupt man very powerful. Keeping this man out of a seat of power was a morally correct reason to do something ethically incorrect. Which brings me to my main point. Ethics is what you are doing, and morals are the reason and motivation behind it. Despite what alot of people belive, ethics and morals are not one and the same. They go hand in hand, but they are separate. You will often see people plagued by things such as the trolley problem, or some such hypothetical ethical tests of the like, but one of my favorite iterations of the trolley problem is this:
You are a doctor. There are 5 patients missing different organs. They will die without them. You don't happen to have any organs avaliable to give to these patients. There is one man, healthy and alive, that you can take these organs from, but of course, doing so would not only be a large lawsuit concerning malpractice, it would also kill the man. Would you save the 5 patients and kill both the man and your career, or would you rather keep your career and the single healthy man. There are alot of circumstances within this question, despite how it may seem. There are questions to be asked. "Why would I, a doctor, steal organs from a healthy, living patient without his consent, knowing it would kill him, and knowing the legal consequences?" "Why would a hospital have no avaliable organs?" "Why can't they find willing organ donors for the 5 patients?" But a question i always like asking is "how is this different then the original question? Choosing to kill one to save 5, or kill 5 to save 1." And i have never gotten a clear answer, but i belive i know it none the less. It is because you are making an unethical desicion, with your own hands. The train did not kill that man. You did. It was unethical, but considering the lives it saved, was it still immoral?

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