The Importance Of Ethical Development

As humans our ethical development is highly impacted by many factors via our outlook, personality and experiences. We go through different stages in our life that are just like a roller coaster drive with both ups and downs, full of learning experiences that determine the person that we are right now and will become. My ethical development, like every one else’s was determined by the experiences and morals learned and taught from family members, mentors and friends, as I grew up in becoming the man I am today. In this essay I will be introducing to you my personal ethics and little by little I will explain this amazing development that makes me who I am right now. As a kid growing up I mainly learned by example, such as the actions from …show more content…
As a teenager, punishment and reward were not as important, it was a stage where I became a lot more socially involved but at the same time my personality was changing. Like any other teenager, it was stage in which I constantly tried to fit in and be liked by society. I became a more open person and someone who just followed what others did or did not do whether it was a new clothing style, music and even a change in the way I would express. There were bad things and there were good things that I learned and experienced from different personalities and events in school such as my peers and mentors, that ultimately had a major impact on my behavior and my moral thinking. As a teenager, I believe I was manipulated mainly by social norms and values of my community that most of the time had a negative impact on my life. I felt as if I had a strong sense of independence from my parents, laws and even society in general. At this point in my life my I simply valued peer …show more content…
I have experienced life in multiple ways that have shaped the person I am right now. My personal ethical values have been molded mainly from my parents, peers and my beliefs. Fortunately, my parents were always there to hold my hand and control my ethical development during my teenager years. They made a great job in constructing a strong foundation of values that lead to the man I am now. Through all the different experiences, outlook and changes in personality I have been through my life, I have learned that making the right decisions based on your own ethical values will put you in the right track. As a building needs a strong foundation base, we also need one. Mine has been constructed with experiences and actions that were taught to me from family members, mentors and beliefs. Understanding every single ethical value in my life were the essential tools I used to construct my own building and everything I learned from my experiences will be a key element for my