Selflessness, Honesty And Loyalty

Living ethically involves three values to live by: selflessness, honesty and loyalty. My ethical manifesto is based on being true to both yourself and others. Selflessness is included to help one another and not forget that we need to coexist. We cannot be blinded by selfishness when there are so many other people on the planet that we can help out. Honesty is needed for us to build trust so that relationships can grow and flourish. Without the trust, there can be no relationship. Last, loyalty is a part of my ethical manifesto for the reason that if you are not loyal, you are proving you cannot be trusted, and if you cannot trust someone why would you show loyalty to them in the first place? Both loyalty and honesty compliment one another. The framework I chose is objectivism because we all have common values and are the same deep down. Based on my experience of living by my ethical manifesto for two weeks, I found there are many strengths and benefits. The main reason being the fact that I based my ethical manifesto on the way I am already living my life. I was raised to always be honest and loyal to friends and family members as well as being selfless when it comes to others and their needs. I have always lived to keep others happy and to …show more content…
I would not revise it because it felt right to be helping by putting their needs before my own others as well as not lying when I felt I needed to. Helping others gives me a boost and makes me so happy that I just crave more. It is like when you start helping others and caring about them above yourself, you cannot stop. Also, when I was in a dilemma where I felt the only way out was through a lie, I stopped for a moment and really thought about it. In the end, it was only ethically right to be honest and it also ended up feeling good. There was no guilty feeling hovering over me for lying or doing the wrong