Personal Ethics

Growing up with my family mainly shaped my personal ethics and views. My parents taught me manners, common decency, and how to behave in public. While being taught all that I think my personal views on ethics started to form. From what my parents taught me, my ethics were built on with my life experiences and religion. While growing up I was always taught how to be a kind, caring, and sharing person. My parents want me to be a child that has good values and intentions. My parents are the ones that mainly affected my ethical beliefs. They came to America as immigrants for a better life and they have always taught me to be a humble person and to work hard. Their life experiences have played a major role on my personal ethics. Since they were

I have always lived my life based off of theses three principles. Sometimes it feels challenging to live by these principles but I always remember what my parents have taught me and I get motivation to keep living off these principles. My parent’s happiness matters a lot to me and that helps me stay motived. I would never do something that would upset my parents or make them ashamed of me. They have given me everything I ever needed in life and taught me everything I know today. Making them proud and respecting them helps me stay motivated to do the right things and follow my personal principles of integrity, respect, and

Also after taking technology ethics my eyes have been opened to other point of views. It has made me think in ways that I have been previously closed minded on. After learning about different scenarios my views and personal ethics change depending on that particular scenario. My main goal in any given scenario is to help the majority of the people in the most ethical way possible. A personal experience I had about a social more was when I was in fourth grade and we had a foreign student that just moved into the United States and he didn’t know how to speak English properly and had a thick accent. Everyone made fun of him every time he raised his hand or talked because his voice was different. At the beginning I also made fun of him, which I am not proud of, but I realized, that just because someone has a different accent than we do it doesn’t give us the right to make fun of him or her. I respected his accent because everyone is different in his or her own ways. I knew my parents would be proud that I stopped making fun of him and became friends with him instead. This experience changed my ethics because it challenged my principles but I still stood by them. It made me realize that even though it’s hard to do the right thing its very rewarding to stand by your principles and values in