Wyatt Peters

A Vague and Semi-Comprehensible Code of Ethics

As a person I abide by several ethical standards to get through the day.
1. Be polite and courteous whenever possible in a formal or uncomfortable situation.
2. Don't burden those you regard well.
3. Keep everything possible at such a distance as to make it possible to analyze it.
4. Hold the truth in check unless it has the best outcome.
5. Decide your own path, dont follow.
Really more of a partial code establishing social actions and decisions, but this is about
what was asked for and has a similar effect, as a partial list that seams to explain my
decisions in the past. My goal in creating my code of ethics was to do as well as possible by
myself given my situation and mental resources.
All the common sources have affected my code of ethics; parents, where I grew up, my
situation as I grew up. Religion held no importance in my house growing up, just wasnt
important. I am rather analytical though I view my ability to analyze and my objectivity in low
regard. My understanding of myself comes from my actions in the past. My morality, or at
least that list, has come from a mixture of personality traits and experience from problems I
caused myself. According to Kohlberg's mental reasoning I am in stage 2. Though in my
personal opinion Kohlberg's theory is vague and incorrect, like looking at a canvas covering
the entire side of the largest building you've seen and then summarizing it in eight pictographs
each with a small painting, I would be stage two because I view myself as the most important
person in my life and according to him that means I can even understand laws. However if I
look at my basic urges that I mostly attempt to ignore, then I am still focused on the opinion of
society, stage four I believe.
Civic virtue: you ask for a definition but you have given me a handy quote and latter will

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have me take a test with this question. Will you have an open space or a multiple choice with
one, slightly vague correct answer? I have no way of knowing, but nevertheless, you seem
have an answer you expect yet you ask the question in a paper where you ask the student to
expose and put on parer what makes them tick. A bit mean in my humble opinion. Anyway,
Civic Virtue is when you care more about others than yourself, a bit like chivalry but more of a
state of mind than an obsession with being a savior. If everyone view society as more
important than themselves, then depending on the degree the quality of society will improve.
A veritable utopia of happy people, no crime, little conflict, and never going to happen. So, lets
retreat into a less Utopian definition. Civic Virtue is when an individual makes a habit of
improving the quality of society in whatever way they have possible. A Good Citizen is one
who is involved in their government, keeps aware of the global situation, stays informed, and
is usually far right, far leftist, or very neutral because of their involvement in politics. To say
that civic virtue is important is strange. Civic virtue is to slightly improve society because you
are unable to improve your life or those around you to such a degree as you are satisfied
with, and this obviously shows how 'civic virtue' improves society.
Again your wording is strange. How can you say a fact is important. Anyway, If
individuals all had the same code of ethics then they would be easily manipulated, less
individualist, and the human mind would be very different for such a thing to be possible.
This assignment has thought me, it reinforced several things I already !!br0ken!!
aved about myself, of which the list is lengthy and unimportabt. I have learned that I am easily
frustrated when talking about delicate subjects and questions are unclear, in-precice, vague.
Also that I have little desire to be a 'Good Citizen' maybe I read to many books where those
people are taken advantage of.