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and to organize all of the elements of ones life has lead to a great deal of stress in modern mans life. Understanding where ones opinions come from and why
one believes as one does allows one to better judge a situation and to become proactive rather than reactive. The term ethical and ethics is bantered about on the evening
news more than a tennis ball at the World Open. It leaves one wondering if the anchors who use it so freely truly understand what ethics means, what factors actually
influence the development of those ethics, and how ethics play in to ones decision making abilities. The actual study of ethics examines the basic desired goals of a person and
his/her development of concepts such as right and wrong(Thiroux 2000). Interestingly enough, what may be considered right in one country, is definitely wrong in another. This is something that sociologists
and philosophers are fascinated by. In addition, the concepts of right and wrong may hinder a person from attaining their goal and the study of this impedance may also be
studied. However, one should not confuse morals with ethics. Morals generally pertain to certain practices followed within a culture. Ethics are those ideas
that either support or do not support these practices. In other words, morals refer to certain actions and ethics is the reasoning or rationale behind the actions. Morals may or
may not have been subjected to close ethical consideration by the individual or culture. An example of this might be an individuals belief on whether sex before marriage is right
or wrong. One difficulty, Thomas Hobbes (a philosopher of the classical era) states, is that since men are selfish, they have an incentive to comply with moralitys demands only if
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