There are no right or wrong answers in ethics.

Ryan Molenaar: Pro: There are no right or wrong answers in ethics As you have stated clearly, as humans we know right and wrong. My argument simply is to prove that there are no right or wrong answers in ethics. It does not matter if an individual thinks something is right or wrong, because the answer is based on our own set of ethics. As I stated in my previous argument, who are we to decide what is right and wrong? That person may think he is doing the correct thing while we may think it is wrong. I believe that as a whole, the population has a set of ethics that most of us share, however that is because we grow up in a certain area. We have grown up in the Northern United States where we do not treat African Americans any differently than anyone else. This ethic choice was instilled within us as children and as such, we continue that as adults. Most of the people around us make the same ethic choice to treat African Americans just as we do. However, in a different area, such as in some Southern states, they treat African Americans differently and worse than Northerners do. They grew up and were instilled ethically to treat them that way, just as we grew up to treat them fairly. That Southerner believes how he treats them is right where we view it as wrong. They certainly believe that we are wrong in treating them fairly, but there are laws that try to tell us this, which I will get to shortly. You stated that if we make the decision to hurt someone, that would be ethically bad. Perhaps the person we hurt was a murderer who was trying to hurt us, would it still be ethically bad to harm them? Even in a normal situation, the person doing the harming believed they were right in that moment in harming someone else, even if they may regret it a second later. In that moment they believed they were right. These rules or laws that try to tell us what is ethically or morally wrong are simply a matter of opinion set down by those who write them. These individuals believe that a certain thing is ethically bad, but in another country, it may be good. For example, in Saudi Arabia, it is ethically acceptable to not allow women to drive. The government there believes this to be okay, whereas most other governments don't. It is simply a subjective matter based on what a person believes to be good or bad. My argument again is simple. There are no right or wrong answers in ethics. We may believe something is wrong, but who says it is actually wrong? The government? It is up to the individual, as even you have stated. There is no higher power to say what is right or wrong. A government may try to be that higher power. However, even what they say is based on a majorities ethics and their own opinion. They try to come up with laws saying that something is bad. Some people say that religion defines what is good or bad, such as sins. Even that is a matter of opinion based on what the "God" or a "God" believes. There are contradictions in different religions all the time. It is ethically okay to eat pork as a Christian, but not as a Muslim. There is simply no way to prove what we think as morally and ethically okay, is actually morally or ethically okay in the big scheme of things.