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What are ethics?
Derivative of Greek word “ethos” meaning character are study of norms to decide what is right, wrong, good, or bad are voluntary action by choice concerns with human conduct. Ethics meaning customs or manners, concerns with human conduct & human values. Morality comes from latin word moralis. Ethics is science with morality of human acts through medium of natural reason.
What is bioethics? Bioethics is branch of ethics or applied ethics, are study of value judgement pertaining to human conduct in area of biology. Bioethics in corporates our obligation to others issues arising from biological & medical sciences. How ethics applies :
Doctor should never assist their patients to die but sometimes doctors should assist their patients to die. It is always wrong to kill human being but abortion is not always wrong eventhough abortion kills human being. These facts are always complex & changes with different human heads from multiplicity of choices, intention, actual action, results.
Telling truth is Jain ethics, one of five mahavratas means telling truth is duty but only towards him who has a right to the truth. But no one has right to truth that injures others. Duty of telling truth corresponds to right. Where there is no right there is no duty to tell truth. Occasionally lying is justified. You cant apply any hard & fast rule. We have to act according to situation. If someone comes to your house for shelter for hiding to save him or her from the followers who may kill or molest her & the followers ask about her & you refuse of knowledge about her hiding-such telling of lies is not wrong. Not telling the truth is same as telling a lie. We have to face the truth, may be severe disease or bad disaster but one must tell truth about fact in proper condition & situation. We can't reach the right ethical decisions unless we are well informed about relevant facts....
It is wrong to resuscitate a terminally ill patient against his or her wishes or wrong to kill with his consent individual has different opinion which depends upon fact & individual's thinking.
Ethical relativism or cultural relativism, it is individual's attitudes that determines what is right or wrong; but according to attitude of culture in which one lives each nation thinks their own customs best. There can be no objective right or wrong beyond the bounds of one's own culture. Morality is relative to culture. When people from two
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