However, if your boss wants to tell his friend about this episode -- perhaps without naming names -- to encourage him to make Company X a more desirable place to work and therefore more likely to retain employees, that seems not merely ethical but also benevolent.
It's an indictment of our own voyeuristic addiction to shock in a culture that seems to have abandoned ethical action for just one more YouTube hit.
He has values that seem almost ethical.
That seems like ethical work on the side of good to me.
Here, too, he explores the personal ethical dilemmas that seem purely political to the outside world.
More than adding bricks and trees, though, the Whelan administration avoided the ethical snares that seemed for a long time to be as much a part of Atlantic City life as pawn shops and the promise of easy winnings.
These studies appear to have identified specific sites within the human brain that seem to be involved in ethical reasoning and moral judgments (Greene et al., 2001; Greene and Haidt, 2002).
But just as Muslim scholars insist that the passages of the Quran that seem out of step with modern ethical norms be read in light of their historical context, the same is true with Paul's letters.
Irving Babbitt said at the beginning of the 20th century: "The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards".
The ethical divide that seems to be opening up here suggests that those who are willing to drop bombs might want to abduct the nearest and dearest of suspected terrorists--their wives, mothers, and daughters--and torture them as well, assuming anything profitable to our side might come of it.
Something that seems, on the surface, to be an ethical individual judgement?
