The purpose was actually to create a mailing list to market a similar, competitive business. Prior approval to do this was not obtained from the event promoter. We are faced with more and more gray areas as our world, personal and professional, grows at a pace more rapid than our ability to cope and process the changes. Ethics is becoming a buzz word in business, seen on the cover of national magazines, debated in news groups on the internet. Let s start with a working definition.
Ethics is a set of values that consistently guides our behaviors.
One of the problems with ethics today is that we have so many different mores or values that guide our society. We have been through several major shifts in our societal standards of right and wrong. The most telling symptom of these shifts can be found in prime time television. We have shifted from the Leave It To Beaver fifties to the Friends nineties. Sexual innuendoes are abundant, and just about anyone is in bed with just about everyone.