LAW 122 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Motorboat, Tax Law
10 Dec 2013
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12/7/2013 11:22:00 am ethics is critical, structured examination of how individuals and institutions should behave when their actions affect others. Critical : it is about more than just describing existing patterns of behaviour. Structured : it is about more than institutions, gut reactions; it is about providing reasoned arguments for why we should or should not behave certain ways. I stopped to help at the accident scene because it was the right thing to do . It is good to donate to charity . It"s wrong to lie to your customers . Taking advantage of someone"s weaknesses is unethical . Ethics is most often easy you were raised well, you do right thing most of time. Ethics becomes harder when important ethical values or principles conflict. Ethical judgments involves weighing competing values or principles there is no formula for doing this. Sometimes there is a clear right answer, but sometimes there is not.
