The person who tries to turn them into absolute moral demands not only distorts them but also runs the risk of blatant immorality. This is especially true where a given code tends to emphasize a minimum standard of acceptability. D. Describe the relationship between values, professional ethics, and obligations. Many times we see society's ethics or the profession's ethics as providing controls on the self-seeking values of the individual professional. Professional ethics if genuine are from inside the professional rather than from outside.
Ethics starts with the professional's values.
We need to put human happiness before our own transitory pleasures. The functions that professions perform will always be satisfied by some social arrangement. But it does not have to be satisfied by a profession as we have used that term. If the professions do not or cannot guarantee both the competence and the trustworthiness of professionals, then that guarantee will have to be provided by others. Professional obligations arise out of the professional competence that is required of professionals.