Ethics and Behavior

How should ethics and behavior at personal and professional levels differ, and how should they be similar?

Ethics and behavior at personal and professional levels differ because there is a thin line between what a person feels is right and what that person is professionally obliged to do. There isn’t a definite answer to where a person will cross the imaginary line from personal to professional ethics and behavior. This is because there are various scenarios where an individual may decide to keep the situation at a personal level vice taking the professional route and vice versa. Take for example a judge. His personal ethics may be those that are against the death penalty, but since he is sworn to uphold the law, at one point or another he may be faced with following the law and imposing the death penalty.

Ethics and behavior should be similar in that your personal ethics and behaviors could be construed as professional behaviors because they may be similar to what is expected of us in our personal lives. Sometimes, if you feel so strong about an issue where it falls under both your personal and professional ethics, the best thing to do would be to pull yourself from that situation so that you’re not caught up in a moral dilemma. Ethical behavior is something that all individuals posses. It cannot be avoided nor can it b harnessed for the good of all evil. Nothing comes to mind when talking about being nonethical as people nowadays seem to think that all thier issues may be related to others problems.

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