Ethics/Value

Values are very important to how a person views themselves. Values helps a person to become who they are and they can establish themselves. Values are things that people value and focus their lives around. Values are basically a set of rules that a person sets for themselves that they follow. Values are usually easy to follow because a person sets them for them selves. For example, a persons value is to be nice and to help others. This is a good value because it is helping out a person and the person who is giving out the niceness. Values are all different types of things. A person could set all their values based on the Bible. This would mean that they follow what the Bible says. They will also follow the 10 Commandments as closely as possible. Following the values in the Bible would be a very good thing. It would help build a Utopian society, even thought the Bible was not aiming for one. If people would follow the rules, society would run a lot smother. A value I have is to help others. I like this value, though I do not always follow it because when I do something good for another person and they are grateful towards me, it feels very nice and it is rewarding. I like to spend my time doing rewarding things. Ethics are very important. I have been learning about ethics in Psychology. We are studying on the ethics of some experiments. An example they gave us was the Milligram experiment. It was an unethical experiment because they did not tell the people what they were being tested on. They were told the experiment was about memory, but in reality it was seeing if people would act like the Nazis in the Holocaust. Ethics are very important to society to be sure the public act accordingly. We have to be sure we are treating people with respect and they must know what is happening to them.