My Opening for an Assignment on Morality and Ethics in Professional Relationships

Ethics is “that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct,”i whereas morality is defined as “moral quality or character.”

In other words, ethics could be considered a subset of moraltiy, because our morality defines our own personal character; and that character decides how we deal with other people, which is the domain of ethics.

It is important for me to make this distinction between the two concepts, because when I talk about ideal behaviour in a business environment, I’m talking about ethics—the way in which I deal with other people or the way in which I would like people to deal with me—and not morality as a whole.

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How Can We Eliminate Poverty in Underdeveloped Countries?

One of my dear friends tweeted this yesterday, “How about we spend an hour discussing how we can eliminate poverty in underdeveloped countries. As opposed to Sidney Crosby’s vertebra.” In response to that tweet, the first thing that came to my mind was, “do we even need to work on it in the first place?” Then I thought, okay, let’s indulge in some borderline altruistic thinking — I could argue that it isn’t really altruistic to want to help those in a subhuman level of existence, but that’s a topic for another discussion.

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