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Ethics

A set of moral principles, esp. those of a specified religion, school of thought. The science of morals; the branch of knowledge that deals with the principles of human duty or the logic of moral discourse; the whole field of moral science. Oxford Dictionary

Ethics and morals are the basis of the laws that various societies and religions impose on its citizens and followers in order to try to curb the worst excesses of instinctual malicious behaviour. Ethics generally refer to what is regarded as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, while morals deal with ‘good’ and ‘bad’.

Many people in each generation, seeing the failure of ethics and moral principles, have set out to question and examine the ‘flawed’ ethics of the previous generation firmly believing some noble and significant advance is being made in a quest to find the answer to the human dilemma. Thus, we lurch from one ‘ism’ to the other, swing from one hoary ideal to the next, dust off yet another ancient concept that has already proven useless and proclaim it as ‘the Solution’. The New Dark Age comes complete with its own set of ethical platitudes which are but the same old ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ of generations passed, dressed up in current clichéd jargon. Ethics remain firmly in the ‘nice idea, but ...’ category. To live one’s life believing the ethical rules of others as to what is considered right and what is considered wrong is the antithesis of freedom. Surely it is time to try a new approach to the ‘nice idea, but ...’ failure.