PERSONAL ETHICS DEVELOPMENT PAPER 2
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Personal Ethics Development Paper
Running head: PERSONAL ETHICS DEVELOPMENT PAPER 1
Personal Ethics Development Paper
Personal ethics development does not start once you are an adult, but is the accumulation of principles and values that one attains throughout their life. Potter Stewart once said "Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do" (Potter, 2014).
The development of values is acquired early in life starting with the values that our parents have handed down. As children we learn to correlate good behavior from the praise we receive from our parents and the bad from the scolding's that resulted when doing wrong. This sets the stage for our fundamental value system or our core beliefs which guides our thinking process (Trevino & Nelson, 2011).
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English: Rausand, Marvin. Risk Assessment: Theory,...My personal values like everyone else's were defined at an early age; I came from a large family where family unity was essential for daily life. I was taught at an early age that fairness, honesty, and accountability were the staples that held us together; I remember my father always telling us that a man's word were all that he had and once you put that into question a man had nothing at all. At that time my father had just opened a small business rebuilding clutches and brakes for industrial and farming equipment which everyone in my family had to work at. He always warranted the work he provided; he always gave back the money to customers who complained even though it was not the fault of the product. At the time I thought this was not right as we were extremely poor and...