My Ethical Code Analysis

If you saw a woman drop her wallet on the subway and your family was starving, would you pick it up and take it, or hand it back to the woman? The majority of people would probably take the wallet without a second thought to feed their family, very few would return the money to the woman. Morals are internal principles that people live by, it’s the right from the wrong, it’s the justified versus the unjustified. As infants, adolescents, teens and adults, we are all instilled with various morals that change and shift as time passes. Was I born with the morals I have now, did my upbringing shape my ethical code, or did I learn it through social interactions? Whichever way I learned right from wrong, my morals cover a wide expanse of various situations …show more content…
As humans, are we all going to judge a person? Yes, it is in our nature to take how we see a person and automatically assume we know the person’s background or life situation, but in reality, looks are only skin deep and we can’t truly understand a person until we find out their story. Keeping a promise is one of the hardest things to do, and in today’s society it has become more acceptable to not keep a promise, or to throw the word around when you don’t intend to follow up on what it means. I find that it is immoral not to keep a promise because someone is putting their trust in you, and you are breaking it. If I said that we always do the right thing all the time, I would be lying. Sometimes doing what is right is the hardest thing of all, especially when it comes to social norms and peer pressure. As a person I strive to do what I feel is right every day, but I can’t say that I always …show more content…
Where the area becomes grey is when we consider if it’s immoral to judge a person immediately. From my moral standpoint, you should not judge a person under any circumstance until you have found out who they truly are. For example, if you see a girl who has worn the same clothes for the last three days, her face is dirty, and her hair is greasy, your first assumption must be that she has no personal hygiene. You might turn to your friends and make a face because of the way that she smells. Yes, it is merely being human when we assume something about someone because of their appearance, but what you may not know is that the girl’s dad rarely works, and when he does, the money goes to booze so her mom can’t pay the water bill. Would that change your mindset about the girl? Absolutely. The same situation often works in reverse. Girls might swoon over a good looking rich boy, when in reality he could be from a family who gets their money from drug smuggling. The old saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover” ties in well with this moral view, and it also reiterates that we have to judge a person based on their