NeWest Publishers Limited, Edmonton.
Ethical problems are problems of conflicting values.
We value things, ideas, beliefs, faiths, with varying intensities. When values held with similar ardour clash, then a serious ethical problem emerges. In the arena of environmental ethics a high valuation of people competes with a rising valuation of the Home Place. Some people associate ethics and morality with the narrow mind and manners of Mrs. Grundy, thinking of codes, rules and regulations that cramp and confine. Others equate ethics with social controls over business finagling, medical chicanery and sharp legal practices.