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Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction Ethics can be confusing for many people, who associate it with religion
or law. But thinking of ethics in connection with any other subject makes it very unclear. This paper discusses what ethics is, what ethical decisions are, and what factors affect
ethical decisions, and how such decisions can be justified. Discussion Ethics: Ethics is not religion, nor is it law. If it were, then all religious people would be ethical, and
non-religious people would be unethical in every case, and clearly that is not true. There are many people who do not belong to any formal religion who behave ethically, and
many church-goers whose behavior is questionable at best. Likewise, ethics has little to do with law, or society. There are laws that are unethical, such as the laws that made
slavery legal in the United States and made apartheid the national system in South Africa. Clearly, people obeying the laws of these nations were behaving legally, but not ethically. Likewise,
entire societies can be evil, such as Nazi Germany; the Nazis made persecution of the Jews a matter of law, but it was absolutely unethical. We cannot, therefore, use other
concepts to explain ethics; it stands on its own. The best definition apparently comes from ancient Greece, from Socrates who said that ethics is the answer to the question "What
ought one to do?" (Longstaff, 1995). But deciding the answer to that question is very difficult. Longstaff explains why. Most people, he says, would probably agree that its best to
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