Ethics

A very neat definition (or so I thought) of ethics that Hamid gave the other day:

An ethical code, he said, is a statement about three things -

1. A view of reality or the world
2. An objective/goal within that world-view
3. A set of rules for achieving that objective within the framework of the world-view

I thought it was very interesting that we often associate ethics with only the third statement, while it really is the result of the first two as well. Therefore, oftentimes when we find ourselves at odds with someone on an ethical matter, it is not because we just arbitrarily have different rules, but because we have different views of reality and/or different objective functions.

Definitely seemed like food for thought...