Ethics Whats hot?_Does Ethics Really Matter_A Reaction
Tubeo_Roselie.Reaction on the Articles: ETHICS: What’s Hot? And Does Ethics Really Matter.Feb 25, 2014
I couldn’t help but be slack-jawed after reading the two articles on Ethics that Prof Mansibang wrote. The first one is a speech before a group of CPA and maybe doctors and professors in a formal gathering. The second is simply a response to an inquisitive MBA student who bravely posted a forum topic: Does Ethics really matter? Although I read the two articles on two separate occasions while I was juggling career, motherhood and the everyday 60 km hasty drive to and from work, both articles have the same noted consistency in terms of tenor, poetic license and class that strike its reader straight to the heart.
Academically written, the first article reverberated the very essence of moral values and its congruency to moral imagination and ethical justifications. Where no code resides, moral judgment and ethical decisions abide. But sometimes, even when codes and laws and norms are available, when these conflict with doing the right thing on certain situations, an ethical man chooses that which is, the `better’ right. I remember the time when I got a call from my best-friend in the States and she had been battling between finally leaving his abusive and womanizer husband and taking off with another married man thus also helping him scot-free from his adulterous and spendthrift wife; or just stay as she is and ‘be miserable all her life’. She said she cannot survive without a partner and she also needs to help this other man be liberated from the condescending and punitive wife. She said that she is helping herself and this other man in the process if she will leave her husband and he leaves his wife. They will finally be unshackled from both their 10-year old ‘marriages from hell and live a much, much better life, more conducive for their growing children’. I was actually dumbfounded and for the first time I couldn’t hide my altruistic behavior of discontent
I couldn’t help but be slack-jawed after reading the two articles on Ethics that Prof Mansibang wrote. The first one is a speech before a group of CPA and maybe doctors and professors in a formal gathering. The second is simply a response to an inquisitive MBA student who bravely posted a forum topic: Does Ethics really matter? Although I read the two articles on two separate occasions while I was juggling career, motherhood and the everyday 60 km hasty drive to and from work, both articles have the same noted consistency in terms of tenor, poetic license and class that strike its reader straight to the heart.
Academically written, the first article reverberated the very essence of moral values and its congruency to moral imagination and ethical justifications. Where no code resides, moral judgment and ethical decisions abide. But sometimes, even when codes and laws and norms are available, when these conflict with doing the right thing on certain situations, an ethical man chooses that which is, the `better’ right. I remember the time when I got a call from my best-friend in the States and she had been battling between finally leaving his abusive and womanizer husband and taking off with another married man thus also helping him scot-free from his adulterous and spendthrift wife; or just stay as she is and ‘be miserable all her life’. She said she cannot survive without a partner and she also needs to help this other man be liberated from the condescending and punitive wife. She said that she is helping herself and this other man in the process if she will leave her husband and he leaves his wife. They will finally be unshackled from both their 10-year old ‘marriages from hell and live a much, much better life, more conducive for their growing children’. I was actually dumbfounded and for the first time I couldn’t hide my altruistic behavior of discontent