[vc_row row_type=“row“ use_row_as_full_screen_section=“no“ type=“full_width“ angled_section=“no“ text_align=“left“ background_image_as_pattern=“without_pattern“ css_animation=““][vc_column width=“2/3″][vc_column_text]Nowadays you can find ethics as a notion everywhere: ethics in profession, agricultural ethics, medical ethics, applied ethics and so on. You simply can turn everything into an ethical subject. That’s fine since behind that notion lies a promise of a so called “good” action and point of view. Even though part of my final exams at the university consisted in philosophy and theory of science I would never claim to have a sound knowledge of what all is about those many derivations of ethics.
A few weeks ago I was at an evening event where there was dinner served. I had quite a long conversation with a person who is writing her phD in medical ethics. Besides that she had been for some years working in war areas as a “helping hand” in the organization of the humanitarian work. Waw, I thought, what a life. And she told me: yes, her life changed immensely after all that: it is a life based on ethics strictly. There is no day without ethical background. Waw, I thought again. What a “good” life, full of ethics.
For dinner you could chose a vegetarian or normal (meat containing) menu (without declaration of the origins of that meat). The “ethical” person sitting next to me ate with big pleasure the menu containg meat (young goose) and went on talking about medical ethics and her ethical life. After a time she was acting quite rude correcting the speaker of the evening confronitng him with some additional notions fitting that discourse (even though no one of the public had the slightest knowledge nor the idea of these).
After that evening I asked myself the question: do I lead an ethical life? No, I don’t. Of course, I try to avoid eating meat without declaration and try to choose vegetarian food, I try no to buy too much things produced in countries where the working conditions are abusive, I try to avoid taking plastic bags when shopping, and so on. But in the end there are quite an amount of things I do which are not based on proper ethics.
Ethics is far more than only applied to humanitarian or medical work. Our planet including flora and fauna is suffering a great deal from us human beings. Leading a proper ethical life would mean caring for all these things instead of only talking and writing phDs in ethics.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=“30px“][social_share_list][/vc_column][vc_column width=“1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]