ETHICS:

DECISIONS ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG ACTIONS

• Many of our decisions have little effect on other people or ourselves.
• For example: picking a pair of jeans
• However, a decision concerning letting a loved one on life support go is an intensly ethical decision
• To involve ethics, a decision must affect you or others in some way

Reasoned Decisions
We often act in response to our emotions, but to make ethical decisions we must base our decisions on reason. Emotional decisions aren't wrong, but shouldn't be used when making serious ethical considerations.

IMPARTIALITY-

Impartial Decisions
If it is wrong for you to engage in a certain action, then it also is for someone else. Impartiality requires that in making ethical decisions we balance our self-interests with the interest of others. To do this we must be able to recognize the interest of others. It is partially important when the other people are represented by institutions not real people.

Continued:
-When dealing with institutions being impartial means seeing how others are affected by our actions
-The law is an institution, and represents all the people in our country.
-When we violate the law, we injure many other people.