Ethics are morals which people use to decide what is right or wrong, and morality is knowing the difference between right and wrong behaviors. In a simple straight forward meaning ethics is acceptable and unacceptable behavior based on the norms of society. Now morality is understanding right from wrong in the behavior of a human. When defining either morality or ethics, each of those will show how they are all related concepts. While people know right from wrong at an early age, society’s values negatively affect people’s behavior. Values are taught in childhood years, but overtime are changed in order to fit the current values of society.
Since childhood a person 's ethics and morals are instructed by those who are one 's parents or guardians. …show more content…
Carter along with others argue “poor role models and lack of parental guidance” for students that are cheating in college. One 's parents structure the way there child thinks at an early age but nevertheless as the child moves into the stage of adolescence they begin to create their own sense of idea to what may be morally right from wrong. A parent can only teach a child right from wrong at an early age, but when they become adults there morals will change due to the culture they live in. As one grows the morals taught at an early age may not be accepted within society, therefore one changes their morals to fit society’s ethics. At that point parents no longer have a say in what the child may think. Therefore, society will always easily influence a person 's behavior in a negative manner. For example years ago plagiarizing was seen as morally wrong by that specific generation, ones parents can see cheating as bad. However since many teenagers in the millennial generation are are now constantly cheating parents may change their perspective because they are accepting the standards society is setting. What one 's parents used to see as morally wrong, is now seen as possibly morally right. Parents now do no find cheating as bad because everybody in the generation are also doing it. These parents are …show more content…
As one grows individually they make decisions on their own. There can never be a standard by which can be accepted by every generation. An individual will always think different from another individual. Even though some customs are morally accepted in one culture it can be criticized in others. For example some of the common customs that differ within a culture can be racism, abortion, or sexism. So these customs lead one to thinking whether or not there is a single universal moral principle society as a whole agree on or if morality is simply an issue in each culture. Since society is made up of different cultures one can realize ideally there will be differences in their views of morality. A person will decide whether or not something is right or wrong based on the norms taken place within their culture. One thing can be morally correct in one culture, but may be morally wrong in another culture. Therefore there can not be a specific standard of morality in which can pertain to all. Living in a diverse society with diverse cultures it is impossible to reach an agreement between all on ethical
Since childhood a person 's ethics and morals are instructed by those who are one 's parents or guardians. …show more content…
Carter along with others argue “poor role models and lack of parental guidance” for students that are cheating in college. One 's parents structure the way there child thinks at an early age but nevertheless as the child moves into the stage of adolescence they begin to create their own sense of idea to what may be morally right from wrong. A parent can only teach a child right from wrong at an early age, but when they become adults there morals will change due to the culture they live in. As one grows the morals taught at an early age may not be accepted within society, therefore one changes their morals to fit society’s ethics. At that point parents no longer have a say in what the child may think. Therefore, society will always easily influence a person 's behavior in a negative manner. For example years ago plagiarizing was seen as morally wrong by that specific generation, ones parents can see cheating as bad. However since many teenagers in the millennial generation are are now constantly cheating parents may change their perspective because they are accepting the standards society is setting. What one 's parents used to see as morally wrong, is now seen as possibly morally right. Parents now do no find cheating as bad because everybody in the generation are also doing it. These parents are …show more content…
As one grows individually they make decisions on their own. There can never be a standard by which can be accepted by every generation. An individual will always think different from another individual. Even though some customs are morally accepted in one culture it can be criticized in others. For example some of the common customs that differ within a culture can be racism, abortion, or sexism. So these customs lead one to thinking whether or not there is a single universal moral principle society as a whole agree on or if morality is simply an issue in each culture. Since society is made up of different cultures one can realize ideally there will be differences in their views of morality. A person will decide whether or not something is right or wrong based on the norms taken place within their culture. One thing can be morally correct in one culture, but may be morally wrong in another culture. Therefore there can not be a specific standard of morality in which can pertain to all. Living in a diverse society with diverse cultures it is impossible to reach an agreement between all on ethical