by J John Swanko
Ethics can escape most. Being ethical is not as hard as understanding what being ethical means. To those studying business, I was taught the layered approach. Long before studying business, Ethics were explained as a choice between sleeping and eating. A former State Department employee got into trouble (please see: Ex State Department Official Arrested -Blessed Are The Peacemakers I had a problem (Please see: What Is Up At Our State Department So, I thought I would cover ethics and Citizen Diplomacy.
In the layered approach to ethics, the base is the law (we are a nation of laws), You do not brake the law. The next higher layer are morals. Morals are taught in church. Those rules you live by, taught by your religion, are your next highest layer, your morals. The highest is ethics. Ethical actions are those you take that go beyond what the law requires and what you learned from your religion.
Most argue the highest ethical standard, Turn the other cheek, is above morals. If you learned it in church, it is moral. Turn the other cheek, may not have a higher ethical layer. A much easier example, your car's turn signal indicator.
When turning left, from a marked left lane, and while using your left turn blinker, in most states, that is an ethical action. The law does not require their use. The more they are used the more maintenance your car uses. An ethical action emits because you, the driver making that left turn, decide to inform those around you of your intended action.
While that example is no, Turn the other cheek. It is ethical. If you ever find yourself or in need of solving an airport power transfer, you need your ethic meter running.
Notes:
If, our State Department, is going to limit, ban, or create hurdles for those citizen diplomats I wrote about in (Ex State Department Official Arrested -Blessed Are The Peacemakers) They will need a few more articles to swipe. I do not want people hurt as these Junior Diplomats, and their unknown leaders -learn the ropes.
I am testing alternate platforms.
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