Ethics

What a tough topic! Ethics is something that varies from person to person and lives in gray area. Personally, I like things to be black or white, right or wrong and when something comes up that doesn’t fit cleanly it makes me a little crazy. I haven’t encountered any ethical dilemmas in the workplace but plenty in my personal life and its still hard for me. One thing that I have the most issue with is how people view common courtesy. My roommate is not the most down to earth person I know but I still love her but sometimes we disagree about what we consider common courtesy. I’m a planner and she’s a go with the flow kind of person and communication lines are crossed frequently and it causes some problems. Should she text me when dinner plans change that aren’t time sensitive? Should I tell her when I go on a spontaneous trip to a friends house when she’s studying? We work problems like these out but the difficulty comes from the differences our ethics have and the way they clash. How do you approach a problem that the parties involve view differently with ethics? Where in the gray area do you meet? Half way? A little to the left or right? Will the decision you make offend or hurt the other? Ethics is tough. Its something that will always have to be considered on a individual basis. Each group working together will have feel each others morals out and tediously work through issues that they face. I think as a group of mentors, we have felt our morals out and could make decisions as a group fairly easily.  Next semester will be a whole new story when 100 new standards are added to the mix. We’ll have to adapt and feel out the new moral standards and where our gray area lands.