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Ethics are a set of moral ideals that human society will follow for overall benefit to mankind. This is not to say everyone follows the same ethics. According to an article by Ovchinnikova, Bartashevich & Chumakova (2020), Russian Philosophy professors “proclaim and justify the importance of science of moralizing as first and necessary stage of moral improvement of a person and beginning of all knowledge”. Ethics are complex and there are different types of philosophers who favor different schools of ethics.

“Virtue ethics” was popular with philosophers like Aristotle who believed that one should center their development around positive human virtues such bravery or kindness to provide a great foundation of life. This way, humans can understand their own nature and build their society positively. A different ethical school of thought is “consequentialism” which judges whether an action is correct or incorrect, largely by the consequences of the action. This means that if a painful/bad action will prevent a large chain reaction of bad decisions then it would be judged as a potentially good action. Let’s say that I punish my children when they try to jump off the roof, then I am using a punishment action to discipline my children. These children in turn will not try to jump off the roof again due to fear of punitive discipline. This would be considered a positive action in consequentialism ethics. Another school of ethical thought is “Deontology”. This ethical school of thought believes that there are strict rules that everyone must follow. A person’s life must adhere to these strict rules to be a functioning member of society. For me, virtue ethics is the best fit. Which would be best fit in your opinion?