You are asked to lie to help a co-worker or friend. You are asked to make a medical decision about a loved one. You try to decide how much income to fill out on your income tax returns. Each of these three has a common thread of ethics-legal, medical and Jewish.
Ethics is a hard subject to define.
Jewish ethics, even more so. Jewish ethics begins with Torah and expands to include discussion, opinion and history. Ethics are the moral and principals which are applicable to the everyday decisions we make. There are no easy answers to these type of questions. There are many interesting resources just beginning to arrive online to help us define who we are and what our beliefs are regarding Jewish ethics.