ETHICS
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Ethics
Ethics is the study of morality. Ethics deals with morality, but it is not the same as morality. Morality is the subject matter that ethics studies. So what, exactly, is morality? Morality consists of the standards that an individual or a group has about what is right and wrong or good or evil. For example, suppose that you come home tired one day and for several hours you don't answer the phone, but listen on your answering machine to people's voices when they call and leave message. When you finally take a call, it's a friend whose upset she couldn't reach you earlier and asks whether you were home. You could tell the person the unvarnished truth, but you know she will feel angry and hurt. So you consider lying and saying you were not home. However, you believe it's wrong to lie...