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Why Is Charlie Gordon Unethical
Jacobs Ethics are well-founded standards of right and wrong from one's point of view. Ethics are also honesty and loyalty. Ethics is not always what society accepts, ethics won't be the same as some one in your religion, region, work, state, country, not even with the same family. To be ethical you must go buy one's felling's of ethics. Charlie Gordon is a adult man with an IQ of 68. Charlie is pursuant about trying to become smarter. Charlie goes to a night school to get smarter, but it has very little affect. Charlie Gordon's doctors did act ethically when preformed the sugary.
The doctors consistently asked Charlie and Mrs. Kinnian (Mrs. Kinnian is Charlie's teacher) if Charlie wanted the operation and if both of them where going to


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