There are no right or wrong answers in ethics.

Ryan Molenaar: Pro: There are no right or wrong answers in ethics To start with, and as my final argument, this is still all your opinion. This is also my opinion on the subject, but I am at least trying to back up my argument. Christopher Columbus and the Holocaust have nothing to do with ethical decisions, at least in the way you presented them. The majority saying that they happened and the minority saying they didn't is a fine example of accepting truth based on what the majority believes, but that is it, based on how you said it. If you had mentioned anything about the ethical situation behind the choices the Nazi's made or how Columbus performed a genocide of his own on Native Americans, then your argument would have some merit. I am sure you will try now, and with this being the last round, you will get in the last comments on this subject, unfortunately. Your examples are sufficient when trying to show the power of majorities, but they hold no water when it comes to ethical situations in the way you presented them. It is like Nolan said in class as an example; if you take a poll in a certain population, there will no doubt be a majority no matter what the poll is about, but just because the majority believes one thing, that does not necessarily make it fact or true because there is always a minority that may think otherwise, whether it be on an ethical situation or not. You keep saying that things are right or wrong, but this is still based entirely on your ethics. Yes you say this is what the "law" is, but this is based on what you have been told by the government, or the "man" as you state later. Your examples, in this round, have nothing to do with ethical decisions. What does the foreigner not being able to get a "Big Gulp" have to do with what is right or wrong in a situation? You are not saying definitively or proving that your view on this matter is correct. You just keep saying something is ethically bad, but this is entirely your opinion. I am repeating myself, but I believe I have to, seeing that you do to. You think something is ethically wrong, but that is your opinion and who gives you the right to judge someone? Yes we all must follow the rules and laws, but these rules are put into society by "the man." What they say is ethically right is what you are basing your argument on, but who says that the government says is right is actually ethically right? I stated this earlier, but who is to say the way we live is the actual ethically right way to live? Maybe someday a higher power, whether it be a God or something else, comes to us and says that the way we live is "ethically" wrong. Will we immediately change what we think is right just because the new "man" says so? Probably not, and we shouldn't but the way you are saying it, you would change the way you think and act based on what the "man" says. I conclude my argument with saying again, there are no right or wrong answers to anything in ethical situations. Yes, we think that something may be ethically wrong, but only because we had this ethics drilled into us as children and then as we reach adulthood and beyond. We act a certain way based on the ethics, but there is absolutely no way to know for sure if how we act is the absolutely correct way to act, or if what we think is "good" and "bad" is actually good and bad. There simply is no way to know for sure, and all of it is based entirely on personal opinion, whether it be at the individual level, or on a governmental level. We are influenced by the government to think certain things but there is NO way to know if this is right or wrong, regardless of your opinion on the matter. We SIMPLY cannot prove it.