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This 6 page paper discusses what the things are, social and practical, that lead the government to make ethical decisions, and why that is important. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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assignment for two reasons: its vague and its far too broad. Its necessary to rewrite it and narrow it down to make some sense of it. It would appear that
the question buried under all that extraneous wordage is this: What are the things, social and practical, that lead the government to make ethical decisions, and why is that important?
Discussion We begin with a consideration of the role of government: most people believe that its function is to "provide an orderly society" but in addition, it also "provides an
enforceable set of moral and ethical values which control the functioning of our society. Within the laws are embedded (hopefully) our cultures moral values" (Shepard, 2002). If government then is
to set the ethical standard of conduct for the nation, its clear that it has to make ethical decisions. But its not easy to understand how to do so without
understanding ethics. First, what is meant by "ethical" decisions? Ethics is a whole field of study in itself; and stated simply, ethics "refers to standards of behavior that tell us
how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves-as friends, parents, children, citizens, businesspeople, teachers, professionals, and so on" (Velasquez et al., 2009). Velasquez
suggests that it may be useful in defining what ethics is by considering what it is not. Ethics is "not the same as feelings"; it is not religion; it is
not science; it is not "following the law" nor is it "following culturally accepted norms" (Velasquez, et al., 2009). And yet any or all of these fields can be practiced
ethically; they can also be pursued in an unethical manner, such as the laws that are perverted to make heinous crimes legal, as in Nazi Germany; or cultural norms that
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