Some years ago a sociologist Raymond Baumhart had asked business people of what they think ethics; most of the respond were right such as “ethics tell what is right and what is wrong”, ethics has to do with my religious feelings”, or, “the law require us to be ethical” and “ethics consists the standard behavior in the society aspects”, also there were some responded “I do not know what ethics means”. Eventually, these replies might be typical regarding to one’s thought, background, and perception. Indeed, the meaning of ethics is hard to pin down and the views about many people about ethics are shaky (Meyer, 1987).
Many people tend to associate ethics with their feelings, religion, law, and being “the same” as whatever society accepts. Essentially, being ethical is clearly not a matter of following those mentions above. For example, identifying ethics with religious, then it can be considered that only religious people are ethical. In reality, ethics applies as much to the behavior of the atheist as to that of the saint (Meyer, 1987). Thus religion can set it ethical standard or intense motivation for ethical behavior.
As a result, Meyer (1987) ethic refers to a well-founded standard of right and wrong (value) that have been thought to a person since he or she was very young (culture). The standards entail to rational obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander, and fraud as unethical yet simultaneously ethical standards also include those that virtues the value of honesty or loyalty and rights; such as, the right to life, to be free and to have privacy. Such standards are sufficient and satisfactory in ethics because they are supported by consistent and well-founded reasons. In conclusion, as mention during debate held in tutorial, rationality is needed for one to decide what is ethical or unethical depending to his or her own personal standards.
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