Ethical breeches separate people. Separation injures conscience. Ethical people forgive and genuinely seek forgiveness to reconcile or restore their relationship with any person to whom they have committed an ethical breech. Seeking forgiveness requires a confession of error by the offender. Ethical people are thankful when forgiven and are motivated to forgive inevitable offenses against them in the future.
Ethical people forgive others and seek the forgiveness of others intentionally.
All people are imperfect, requiring boundaries for behavior. Ethical people willingly yield to the authority of those who are charged with upholding those boundaries. Ethical people help shape and then abide by the legitimate laws, rules and boundaries established by legitimate authorities and strive to live within those boundaries for the betterment of all people. When those given authority violate conscience-convicting ethics, ethical people take ethical action to restore ethical authority. Ethical people preserve their public rights by fulfilling their individual responsibilities.