The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Ethics to me is very important.
I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
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