Ethical Codes “I’m Hungry, mom”. These were my words when I was a 13-year-old boy. My mother was down to her last 10 dollars and all I could think about was my own desire for sweet and sour chicken. A worn down beaten looking man walked pass us as we were leaving the super market and asked if we could spare any change, my mother didn’t have any, only that 10-dollar bill. She gave him the rest of our money and with it, my sweet and sour chicken that I was honestly only craving, not really hungry for. His face lit up with joy while I Selfishly, said “Mom! You gave him all our money, how am I going to eat now”? Despite having plenty of food at home I was upset that I would no longer be able to purchase my Chinese food. My Mother stated, “don’t …show more content…
Example, a waitress handing me my to go order tells me I’m free to go, yet I know that I haven’t paid my bill. Another example FedEx delivers a package to my home, knowing it is not mine I will not accept it. I will however accept a large sum of money if it were from a corporation or person of great wealth or take tickets to a game that will go unused and wasted.
I will not steal if it was by my own doing intentionally or unintentionally. Example, walking out of the store with a case of water unpaid for or forgetting to pay a friend back who has forgotten about the return.
Harming ethical codes;
“Physical harming is the use of or threat to use violence against another person” (pg 23) as a person of character and ethics we must wake up to innocent harming by “recognizing which of our actions put others in harm’s way” (pg23).
I will not support the harming of innocent people or be blindly led to do so. I am in the military and I must trust that we are serving justice to unruly and wicked individuals.
I will not turn a blind eye when I see someone being harmed physically or verbally. I will do my best to immediately stop the situation whether it being bodily abuse or verbal conflict especially when pertaining to race, gender, sexuality, or any type of