True Diversity
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It is often difficult to define ethics and there is much confusion about what ethics really are. It can be even more difficult to call out the distinctions between ethics, values and beliefs. I will be defining ethics as well as describing how my ethics have been developed and evolved.
Ethics involves many different things such as deciding, defending, and recommending right and wrong behavior. Ultimately, they are the principles of one's "correct conduct". Furthermore, society views ethics as the standards in which a person in that society should live by. While ethics is still considered to be the deciding factor on what is right and what is wrong, beliefs and values also hold a similar definition. The difference, however, is that ethics refers to a set of laws or standards that are to be followed in the professional sense, whereas beliefs and morals are much more personal. There is a fine line between the three but ethics tend to be dictated more by culture, society or the individual workplace where beliefs and values become more personal. Beliefs and values guide individual attitudes and actions on such topics as religion, sex, smoking and other social issues...