There are no right or wrong answers in ethics.

Ryan Molenaar: Pro: There are no right or wrong answers in ethics Jumping right in, you BELIEVE that the Southerner is wrong based on what your country tells you to believe. It is wrong yes, based on laws that exist, but ethically wrong is another matter. To you it is ethically wrong, but to the Southerner it is not. Who are you to say it is wrong? I agree it is wrong, but my opinion does not matter because that is not what I am trying to prove. I reiterate that ethics are different to everyone. We think his actions are ethically wrong, but he doesn't. What makes crimes "ethically" wrong is how we are brought up to think of them. We are taught "crime" is bad, but what if we weren't? We would think crime is a good thing and we would be arguing about how doing good deeds is ethically bad. It was all set forth by society and government. I am not trying to sound anti-government, as I believe that crime is bad, but my belief is based entirely on what I was brought up to believe in America. You state again that hurting someone is bad ethically. Yes to most it would be bad morally and ethically to harm someone, but your opinion on the matter is not relevant in my argument. My opinion is the same as yours, as I am sure most everyone believes the way we do. However, what we believe is bad would not be bad to the person harming the other person. An example of this would be the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. The monster who shot innocent children believed he was doing what was right. He had something in him that told him it was okay to kill innocent children. He (I will not even use his name) was brought up in this country just as we both were, but yet his code of ethics is different. So to rely on the government alone instilling ethics in us, would be wrong, since there are exceptions, like people who commit crimes. Everything in your opinion would be bad ethically because it was what we are raised to think. Leave opinion aside and examine it without one. By stating that your rules are different in your household are different than in my household, are you saying that one is better than the other? That cannot be determined, nor should it be. Each ethic code in every household is different. Going to your point about traveling to different countries, if we travel to Saudi Arabia, do we simply follow their rules just because it is law? Just because we are there should we chastise women for driving simply because we are in a country that has a law that says so? The answer is no we would not, but we would have to obey the laws and go along. Inside we think it is wrong, but we wouldn't speak up about it, but instead go along because that is what is morally acceptable there. That doesn't make it right. You say that we must obey the laws. Yes we do, but these laws that are set are based on what the majority believes is ethically acceptable. Are you saying the majority is right all the time? Just because the person or party in power says something is right, does not make it right. They try to tell us what is ethical and what is not, but that is only because that is what they themselves believe. It doesn't "have" to be right; we are told it is right and by law we have to do it, but inside, ethically or morally, we may think otherwise. Who is right? We do not know because there is no power higher than the government to tell us.